Re: [outages] Optus/Akamai

[Steve Meuse via Outages]

Are people using max-prefix for iBGP sessions?

That seems.unwise.

-Steve



On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 1:24 AM Gert Doering via Outages 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 03:25:13PM -0600, Aaron Wendel via Outages wrote:
> > That makes no sense.  How would tripping the max prefix on a single peer
> cause
> > a major outage?
>
> If you have
>
>   client --> border router -> route reflector -> all other BGP speakers
>
> and the "RR -> BGP speakers" sessions get tripped due to "client sending
> in too many new routes", then your whole network will fall apart until
> you can shutdown that initial BGP session (or re-provision the other
> sessions, which might not work due to "there is no connectivity to
> the management systems, because, BGP is down").
>
> *Iff* this happens, and you do not have working OOB access including
> being able to do local config changes on the routers ("all configs are
> done by the automatization, no local access possible"), such a problem will
> be extremely messy to recover.  Especially figuring out *what* happened,
> if you have no visibility because the routers have lost the route to your
> syslog servers
>
> gert
> --
> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
>  feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never
> doubted
>  it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
>  Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh
> Mistress
>
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany
> g...@greenie.muc.de
> ___
> Outages mailing list
> Outages@outages.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
>


-- 

-Steve
___
Outages mailing list
Outages@outages.org
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

Re: [outages] WhatsApp down?

[Steve Meuse via Outages]

Initial reports seem to indicate that Facebook withdrew lots of prefixes
from the global table.

https://twitter.com/atoonk/status/1445073687154073608?s=20

-Steve



On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:03 PM James Lawrie via Outages <
outages@outages.org> wrote:

> No connection at all from my side and twitter seems to confirm
> ___
> Outages mailing list
> Outages@outages.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
>


-- 

-Steve
___
Outages mailing list
Outages@outages.org
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

Re: [outages] AOL instance message login issue

[Steve Meuse via Outages]

(I assume you were meaning to say Instant Messenger)

They announced a while back that they were dropping support for external IM
clients at the end of April. Are you using the AOL branded client, or third
party?

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/02/aol-will-cut-off-third-party-app-access-to-aim/


-Steve

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Matthew Huff via Outages <
outages@outages.org> wrote:

> This morning, we had a number of people kicked out and since haven't been
> able to log back in. I've verified the issue exists when routing through
> both of our upstream ISPs (lightstream & Lightpath). Anyone know anything
> about what's going on?
>
> 
> Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd
> Director of Operations   | Purchase, NY 10577
> OTA Management LLC   | Phone: 914-460-4039
> aim: matthewbhuff| Fax:   914-694-5669
>
> ___
> Outages mailing list
> Outages@outages.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
>



-- 

-Steve
___
Outages mailing list
Outages@outages.org
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

Re: [outages] Comcast outages in Denver metro area

[Steve Meuse via Outages]

There is a Backbone device that is/was mis-behaving in Denver that is
causing some traffic issues. We're in the process of getting corrected.

-Steve



On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Dave Pascoe via Outages <
outages@outages.org> wrote:

> There does appear to be some sort of Comcast outage. I have a remote
> system out there that also went down in the last hour.
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:26 AM Chris Stone via Outages <
> outages@outages.org> wrote:
>
>> Anyone aware of any Comcast outages in the Denver area? Have a number of
>> VoIP clients that are on Comcast circuits around the Denver metro area
>> that
>> are all down right now. I monitor their gateways in Nagios too and they
>> are
>> all 100% down at present. Trying to access them via Cogent and Level3 with
>> the same results - 100% failure.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> ___
>> Outages mailing list
>> Outages@outages.org
>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
>>
>
> ___
> Outages mailing list
> Outages@outages.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
>
>


-- 

-Steve
___
Outages mailing list
Outages@outages.org
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

Re: [outages] Comcast outage at Halsey Street in Newark NJ

[Steve Meuse via Outages]

Our construction crew is working on getting the fiber repaired, no ETA at
this moment.

-Steve

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Brian Epstein via Outages <
outages@outages.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> We received an alert that one of our links for Comcast at Halsey Street
> in Newark, NJ went down at 00:58 EST this morning.  They identified that
> construction crews cut a fiber cable.
>
> It is now 09:10 and the issue still persists.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> --
> Brian Epstein  +1 609-734-8179
> Manager, Network and Security   Institute for Advanced Study
> Key fingerprint = A6F3 9F5A 26C5 5847 79ED  C34C C0E5 244A 55CA 2B78
>
>
> ___
> Outages mailing list
> Outages@outages.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
>
>


-- 

-Steve
___
Outages mailing list
Outages@outages.org
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages