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 UQnet, the University Network

ITS maintains the UQ network, which operates across the major sites of St Lucia, Ipswich, Gatton, Herston and the PA Hospitals and a variety of smaller sites such as Toowoomba. A number of central network services are provided, such as email and DNS.




Network Operations Centre
The UQ Net NOC has operational responsibility for the UQ Net as well as the ITS Data Centres.

Good Network Practices
Recommendations for various classes of devices on UQnet

UQnet details
More details about UQnet including the outside links, UQnet itself, some special parts of the network and some historical snippets.

Central Services - Infrastructural
ITS operates a large number of central services

Internet and Network Access From Central Lecture Theatres
Help Desk information about accessing the Internet from Central Lecture Theatres

Overview of IPv6 (2001)
An extended write-up of a talk given to the QUESTnet 2001 Conference

Postgrad Network
UQ has designated rooms in various buildings for postgraduate use. The rooms are connected to a special network so traffic can be charged back to the student's School or Centre.

Some AARNet History: .oz & .oz.au
ACSNet was the first academic/research network in Australia. It mainly provided a store-and-forward email system even though there were no dedicated links between the nodes. The munnari host at The University of Melbourne acted as t...