[AusNOG] census issues tonight

[Damian Guppy]

Well, looks like they have given up...

https://twitter.com/ABSCensus/status/762996836357419008

"ABS & Census website are unavailable. The service won't be restored
tonight. We will update you in AM. We apologise for the inconvenience."



On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>
wrote:

> Surely those 11 would be the load balancing stack in front, then again 24
> million requests lasting 10 minutes over 72hours is only ~1k requests per
> second, probably easily manageable by 11 servers with a bunch of big SQL
> boxes behind it.
>
> Tracing to the IPs gives different results.
>
> .1 includes ibm.
> .2 goes straight.
> .3 includes ibm
> .4 goes straight
> .5 includes ibm but fails to reach target
> .6... *
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> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:50 PM, James Braunegg <
> james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
>
>> Total of 11 servers used for the application stack….
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>> https://twitter.com/oliyoung/status/761028000821288961
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>> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Co-2565VMAAZeBq.jpg
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>> Thanks Tom M for the links
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>> Kindest Regards
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>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Troy
>> Cowin
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 10:48 PM
>> *To:* Colin Stubbs <colin.stubbs at equatetechnologies.com.au>;
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>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
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>> And the rest…
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>> http://i.imgur.com/N7tlah4.png
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>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>> <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] *On Behalf Of *Colin Stubbs
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 8:35 PM
>> *To:* Glenn Powell <glenn at glennbridge.com.au>
>> *Cc:* AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
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>> $54,367.50 to be precise...
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>> https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.cn.view&CNUUID=069B
>> E127-081D-5AF9-EB096752848D31A8
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>> On 9 Aug 2016 8:14 PM, "Glenn Powell" <glenn at glennbridge.com.au> wrote:
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>> They spent $50k on a 3rd party to do load testing, I wonder what the
>> success criteria of that testing looked like?
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>> On 9 Aug 2016, at 8:09 PM, Brent Paddon <brent.paddon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Only cost $9.6M to host the site...
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>> Brent
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>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:07 PM, James Braunegg <
>> james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
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>> Dead as a doornail …. from Telstra…
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>> How sad… Now What…
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>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *John
>> Lindsay
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 7:52 PM
>> *To:* Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au>
>> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
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>> It’s turned to glue for me.
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>> Was great an hour or so ago.
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>> John Lindsay
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>> On 9 Aug 2016, at 6:51 PM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:
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>> Just completed it then was super snappy for me, so assuming they either
>> ramped up servers or people gave up lol.
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>> On 09/08/16 18:56, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
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>> Their phone number too just rings out with "we're too busy, please call
>> back". Probably due to aforementioned issues.. and then the few million old
>> people who are trying to do it over the phone. Or people who need to call
>> because they were doing it and their session died and their 9 digit code no
>> longer works :/
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>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Troy Cowin <troy at perthsystems.com.au>
>> wrote:
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>> Yep lots of various errors even earlier this morning – took about 5
>> minutes of refreshing to actually get into the site. Once in though it
>> worked ok, hate to see how it will handle the load now its peak hour.
>>
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>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Ben
>> Cornish
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 August 2016 4:28 PM
>> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* [AusNOG] census issues tonight
>>
>>
>>
>> Not surprising – but anyone else seeing issues with the Census site
>> tonight ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Seems Soft layer is serving up parts of this behind the scenes..
>>
>> Im seeing  504 errors from soft layer for large chunks of IP ranges – but
>> not all.
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>> Anyone else seeing this ?
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