[AusNOG] Vocus international service outage

[Jared Hirst]

WOW.... It has taken 2 hours to get remote hands to the DC with what seems
to be a device with no redundancy?

2014/08/23 13:55
UTC

Engineers are currently awaiting remote support in the US. Links will be
physically moved from the failed device in order to restore services on an
alternate device.


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Yager <andrew at rwts.com.au> wrote:

> [hijacking the thread…]
>
> They say there is a big rewrite coming on the way rpd and sampled interact
> in 14.2; and the slow convergance issues have been fixed in more releases
> than I care to remember right now… but people say they are pretty good in
> the 12.3r6 train. Our MX80's are slated for upgrade to that at some stage
> in the next few months.
>
> Some noise about this on j-nsp again today.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
> On 23 August 2014 23:23, Jonathan Thorpe <jthorpe at conexim.com.au> wrote:
>
>> True, but they otherwise work exceptionally well.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m not sure what kind of PowerPC CPU is doing all the work on an MX80’s
>> RE, but I do sometimes wonder if the CPU on a <$40 Raspberry Pi might be
>> more up to the job :-P
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Tony Wicks [mailto:tony at wicks.co.nz]
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 23 August 2014 11:13 PM
>> *To:* Jonathan Thorpe
>> *Cc:* 'Ausnog at ausnog.net'
>> *Subject:* RE: [AusNOG] Vocus international service outage
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, if you buy the big chassis boxes…..
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>> <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] *On Behalf Of *Jonathan Thorpe
>> *Sent:* Sunday, 24 August 2014 1:10 a.m.
>> *To:* Andrew Yager; Jared Hirst
>> *Cc:* Ausnog at ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Vocus international service outage
>>
>>
>>
>> Glad I’m not the only one holding my breath on our MXs :)
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>> <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] *On Behalf Of *Andrew Yager
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 23 August 2014 10:55 PM
>> *To:* Jared Hirst
>> *Cc:* Ausnog at ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Vocus international service outage
>>
>>
>>
>> We've done the same (about 20 minutes ago).
>>
>>
>>
>> Right now I hate how long Juniper MX's take to stabilise their routing
>> table with sampling on.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>> On 23 August 2014 22:41, Jared Hirst <jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>> We have just turned Vocus off. Using other providers for now, as the
>> flapping is causing it to go up and down.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Daniel Watson <Daniel at glovine.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Indeed seeing some big drops in gaming traffic at present, normally we
>> see above 60mbit on weekends at evenings, but not even seeing 40mbit at
>> present :S
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel Watson
>>
>> Network Administrator / Network Operations Manager
>>
>>
>>
>> E Daniel at GloVine.com.au
>>
>> W www.GloVine.com.au
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Jared
>> Hirst
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 23 August 2014 10:35 PM
>>
>>
>> *To:* Andrew Cox
>> *Cc:* Ausnog at ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Vocus international service outage
>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah we are seeing this! Everything running via them is flapping, they
>> claim to have 'routed around it' but that's not the case. Very frustrating
>> as it's been an hour and no one there seems to know whats going on....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Andrew Cox <andrew.cox at bigair.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> Just saw the dashboards light up with connectivity issues internationally
>> for Vocus services and thought I'd make others aware.
>>
>> Vocus outage report is saying: "core network link between 59 Doody
>> Street, Alexandria and 55 South Market Street, San Jose has failed" which
>> hopefully isn't a Southern Cross fault!
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this or have more info?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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