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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>This outage was not for today, alas was major;<BR>
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>From an advisory posted last week;<BR>
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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>
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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>
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On 15/07/08 9:38 AM, "Sean K. Finn" <Sean.Finn@ozservers.com.au> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#1F497D">Sorry for double post.<BR>
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>From an unverified source:<BR>
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Not sure if this is related, but would appear so:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>> 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>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> 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>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I’ve seen something very very odd.<BR>
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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>
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Any traffic that WOULD have come into Optus seems to have been blackholed or just gone missing from 7:50am.<BR>
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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>
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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>
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Seems more complex than just ‘the link, its down’ type of problem.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Sean.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> 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>
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There appears to be a major issue with the Optus ( and other ) mobile / Landline phone network.<BR>
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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>
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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>
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Sincerely<BR>
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Jay Binks<BR>
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