[AusNOG] any inside info on the current Optus / Other outage

[Nick Brown]

This outage was not for today, alas was major;

>From an advisory posted last week;

Start Time: 24/07/2008 00:01:00 AEST
Finish Time: 24/07/2008 08:00:00 AEST
Duration: Up to 4.5 Hours during outage window

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.


On 15/07/08 9:38 AM, "Sean K. Finn" <Sean.Finn at ozservers.com.au> wrote:

> Sorry for double post.
>  
> From an unverified source:
>  
> Not sure if this is related, but would appear so:
>  
> 
>> > 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
>> > looks like a planned outage but was meant to be 1:00am to 8:00am
> 
> From: ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net] On Behalf
> Of Sean K. Finn
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 9:36 AM
> To: 'jay binks'; 'ausnog at ausnog.net'
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] any inside info on the current Optus / Other outage
>  
> I¹ve seen something very very odd.
>  
> I can announce BGP to Optus in QLD where its affected, and my routes show up
> on the  Optus looking glass, however I¹m getting ZERO inbound traffic from
> Optus even though routes to my AS through optus appeared in other looking
> glasses.
>  
> Any traffic that WOULD have come into Optus seems to have been blackholed or
> just gone missing from 7:50am.
>  
> 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?
>  
> 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.
>  
> Seems more complex than just Œthe link, its down¹ type of problem.
>  
> Cheers,
> Sean.
>  
> 
> From: ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net] On Behalf
> Of jay binks
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 9:18 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] any inside info on the current Optus / Other outage
>  
> There appears to be a major issue with the Optus ( and other ) mobile /
> Landline phone network.
> 
> see :
>   http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1013972&p=-1#bottom
>   http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1013970
> 
> obviously most of you guys are probably busy trying to route around it, and
> deal with it yourselves.
> but, is there any inside info you guys have heard that would be of interest to
> the rest of us ?
> 
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Jay Binks
> 
> 
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