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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ahh that outage is next week, I might just turn off Optus as I’ll
be at the registrar’s convention during that outage </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Here’s latest from Whingepool, Again unverified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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9.6pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>QUOTE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
9.6pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>A.
Confirmation from Optus, the fault is @ their P.O.P in Stanthorpe QLD (163km
West of Kyogle N.S.W) – Google Map it if you need.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
9.6pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>B.
0930 restoration has been removed.<br>
C. Helicopter is being use to transport the card to Stanthorpe once it arrives
@ Moorooka via courier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
9.6pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>D.
Optus have advised that there has been issues on both the inland and costal
transmission paths.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
9.6pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>i.
Inland – faulty high order transmission card failure<br>
ii. Costal – fibre cut. ( Interestingly the cut happend moments after the
inland transmission failure! )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
9.6pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>E.
As for validity of my sources. I work at a telco, with direct numbers to the
OPTUS NOC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>END QUOTE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>-S<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ausnog-bounces@ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces@ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nick Brown<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 15 July 2008 9:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sean K. Finn; 'ausnog@ausnog.net'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] any inside info on the current Optus / Other
outage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This outage was not for today, alas was
major;<br>
<br>
>From an advisory posted last week;<br>
<br>
Start Time: 24/07/2008 00:01:00 AEST<br>
Finish Time: 24/07/2008 08:00:00 AEST<br>
Duration: Up to 4.5 Hours during outage window <br>
<br>
Due to a large amount of damage to fibre circuits connected to the Optus
Rochedale point of presence, an extended outage is required to splice in all
new fibre cable in replacement of existing cable that is beyond the state of
repair. As there are a lot of circuits/fibres to be restored in this work, dual
splicing (2 x Fibre Technicians splicing at the same time) will be performed to
achieve quicker restoration of circuits. <br>
<br>
<br>
On 15/07/08 9:38 AM, "Sean K. Finn"
<Sean.Finn@ozservers.com.au> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sorry for double post.<br>
<br>
>From an unverified source:<br>
<br>
Not sure if this is related, but would appear so:<br>
<br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>> Due to a large amount of damage to
fibre circuits connected to the Optus<br>
> Rochedale point of presence, an extended outage is required to splice in
all new fibre cable in replacement of existing cable that is beyond the state
of repair<br>
> looks like a planned outage but was meant to be 1:00am to 8:00am<br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
ausnog-bounces@ausnog.net [<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@ausnog.net]">mailto:ausnog-bounces@ausnog.net]</a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sean K. Finn<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 15 July 2008 9:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'jay binks'; 'ausnog@ausnog.net'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] any inside info on the current Optus / Other
outage<br>
</span><br>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve
seen something very very odd.<br>
<br>
I can announce BGP to Optus in QLD where its affected, and my routes show up on
the Optus looking glass, however I’m getting ZERO inbound traffic from
Optus even though routes to my AS through optus appeared in other looking
glasses.<br>
<br>
Any traffic that WOULD have come into Optus seems to have been blackholed or
just gone missing from 7:50am.<br>
<br>
Dropping the BGP announcement sees the MISSING IN ACTION traffic come down
other links, so perhaps its a fibre cut just affecting data channels rather
than control channels?<br>
<br>
I.e. if i announce to optus, google breaks, even though all of my outbound is
going through someone other than optus, the return path traffic gets lost.<br>
<br>
Seems more complex than just ‘the link, its down’ type of problem.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Sean.<br>
<br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
ausnog-bounces@ausnog.net [<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@ausnog.net]">mailto:ausnog-bounces@ausnog.net]</a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>jay binks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 15 July 2008 9:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ausnog@ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] any inside info on the current Optus / Other outage<br>
</span><br>
There appears to be a major issue with the Optus ( and other ) mobile /
Landline phone network.<br>
<br>
see :<br>
<a
href="http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1013972&p=-1#bottom">http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1013972&p=-1#bottom</a><br>
<a href="http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1013970">http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1013970</a><br>
<br>
obviously most of you guys are probably busy trying to route around it, and
deal with it yourselves.<br>
but, is there any inside info you guys have heard that would be of interest to
the rest of us ?<br>
<br>
<br>
Sincerely<br>
<br>
Jay Binks<o:p></o:p></p>
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