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

[Sean K. Finn]

Ahh that outage is next week, I might just turn off Optus as I'll be at the registrar's convention during that outage :)

Here's latest from Whingepool, Again unverified.
QUOTE
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.
B. 0930 restoration has been removed.
C. Helicopter is being use to transport the card to Stanthorpe once it arrives @ Moorooka via courier.
D. Optus have advised that there has been issues on both the inland and costal transmission paths.
i. Inland - faulty high order transmission card failure
ii. Costal - fibre cut. ( Interestingly the cut happend moments after the inland transmission failure! )
E. As for validity of my sources. I work at a telco, with direct numbers to the OPTUS NOC.
END QUOTE.

-S

From: ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Nick Brown
Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 9:53 AM
To: Sean K. Finn; 'ausnog at ausnog.net'
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] any inside info on the current Optus / Other outage

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

I've 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 I'm 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 'the link, its down' 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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