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

[Nick Brown]

For those not paying attention (Albet the ten fold reduction in phone calls
should be an indication), I¹ve just see  a stack of QLD DSL sessions come
back up.

Touch wood.

Nick.


On 15/07/08 9:56 AM, "Sean K. Finn" <Sean.Finn at ozservers.com.au> wrote:

> Ahh that outage is next week, I might just turn off Optus as I¹ll be at the
> registrar¹s convention during that outage J
>  
> Here¹s 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
> 
> 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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