[AusNOG] census issues tonight

James Hodgkinson yaleman at ricetek.net
Wed Aug 10 08:11:46 EST 2016


"I still don’t understand why the /24 was even advertised
internationally at all…  doesn’t make sense for a website that only
Australians should have been accessing from within Australia."

Because geolocation is poor guesswork at the best of times? We run into
issues with it all the time. I'm surprised they had their "CDN" nodes in
the same range (and certificate, seriously, lazy much?)

James

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, at 23:44, James Braunegg wrote:
> You don’t reroute traffic…. From having an application fail…
>
> You might reroute traffic from network congestion…. But you only black
> hole /32 routes when you want to stop unwanted traffic with a sledge
> hammer….
>
> I still don’t understand why the /24 was even advertised
> internationally at all…  doesn’t make sense for a website that only
> Australians should have been accessing from within Australia.
>
> Kindest Regards
>
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of
> *Nathan Brookfield *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 11:39 PM *To:* Tim
> Raphael <raphael.timothy at gmail.com>; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>
> If you add that to Vocus blackholing some /32's intermittently, I
> think we can safely assume that they were a tasty target ☹ What an
> absolute disaster.....
>
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> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Tim
> Raphael <raphael.timothy at gmail.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016
> 11:25 PM *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census
> issues tonight
>
> So what do we think?
>
> DDoS? (as in illegitimate traffic)
>
> I think the evidence might be there given we saw some Telstra
> route changes that look an awful lot like scrubbing near the
> customer tail...
>
>
> - Tim
>
>
>> On 9 Aug 2016, at 9:23 PM, Michael Schipp
>> <michaelsc at mellanox.com> wrote:
>>
>> So they now pay me $180?
>>
>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of
>> *Damian Guppy *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 11:11 PM *To:* Joshua
>> D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>>
>> Well, looks like they have given up...
>>
>> https://twitter.com/ABSCensus/status/762996836357419008
>>
>> "ABS & Census website are unavailable. The service won't be restored
>> tonight. We will update you in AM. We apologise for the
>> inconvenience."
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Joshua D'Alton
>> <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:
>>> Surely those 11 would be the load balancing stack in front, then
>>> again 24 million requests lasting 10 minutes over 72hours is only
>>> ~1k requests per second, probably easily manageable by 11 servers
>>> with a bunch of big SQL boxes behind it.
>>>
>>> Tracing to the IPs gives different results.
>>>
>>> .1 includes ibm.
>>> .2 goes straight.
>>> .3 includes ibm
>>> .4 goes straight
>>> .5 includes ibm but fails to reach target
>>> .6... *
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:50 PM, James Braunegg
>>> <james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
>>>> Total of 11 servers used for the application stack….
>>>>
>>>> https://twitter.com/oliyoung/status/761028000821288961
>>>>
>>>> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Co-2565VMAAZeBq.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Tom M for the links
>>>>
>>>> Kindest Regards
>>>>
>>>> *James Braunegg
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>>>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf
>>>> Of *Troy Cowin *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 10:48 PM *To:* Colin
>>>> Stubbs <colin.stubbs at equatetechnologies.com.au>;
>>>> ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>>>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>>>>
>>>> And the rest…
>>>>
>>>> http://i.imgur.com/N7tlah4.png
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf
>>>> Of *Colin Stubbs *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 8:35 PM *To:* Glenn
>>>> Powell <glenn at glennbridge.com.au> *Cc:* AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>>>>
>>>> $54,367.50 to be precise...
>>>> https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.cn.view&CNUUID=069BE127-081D-5AF9-EB096752848D31A8
>>>>
>>>> On 9 Aug 2016 8:14 PM, "Glenn Powell" <glenn at glennbridge.com.au>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> They spent $50k on a 3rd party to do load testing, I wonder what
>>>>> the success criteria of that testing looked like?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 9 Aug 2016, at 8:09 PM, Brent Paddon <brent.paddon at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only cost $9.6M to host the site...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brent
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:07 PM, James Braunegg
>>>>>> <james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Dead as a doornail …. from Telstra…
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How sad… Now What…
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kindest Regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *James Braunegg
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>>>>>>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On
>>>>>>> Behalf Of *John Lindsay *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 7:52 PM
>>>>>>> *To:* Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> *Cc:*
>>>>>>> ausnog at lists.ausnog.net *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues
>>>>>>> tonight
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It’s turned to glue for me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Was great an hour or so ago.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John Lindsay
>>>>>>> johnslindsay at mac.com
>>>>>>> +61403577711[11]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 9 Aug 2016, at 6:51 PM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just completed it then was super snappy for me, so assuming
>>>>>>>> they either ramped up servers or people gave up lol.
>>>>>>>> On 09/08/16 18:56, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Their phone number too just rings out with "we're too busy,
>>>>>>>>> please call back". Probably due to aforementioned issues.. and
>>>>>>>>> then the few million old people who are trying to do it over
>>>>>>>>> the phone. Or people who need to call because they were doing
>>>>>>>>> it and their session died and their 9 digit code no longer
>>>>>>>>> works :/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Troy Cowin
>>>>>>>>> <troy at perthsystems.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Yep lots of various errors even earlier this morning – took
>>>>>>>>>> about 5 minutes of refreshing to actually get into the site.
>>>>>>>>>> Once in though it worked ok, hate to see how it will handle
>>>>>>>>>> the load now its peak hour.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On
>>>>>>>>>> Behalf Of *Ben Cornish *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 4:28 PM
>>>>>>>>>> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net *Subject:* [AusNOG] census
>>>>>>>>>> issues tonight
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Not surprising – but anyone else seeing issues with the
>>>>>>>>>> Census site tonight ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Seems Soft layer is serving up parts of this behind the
>>>>>>>>>> scenes..
>>>>>>>>>> Im seeing  504 errors from soft layer for large chunks of IP
>>>>>>>>>> ranges – but not all.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Anyone else seeing this ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Ben Cornish Chief Operating Officer
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>
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