Re: [AusNOG] As path prepend TPG and Vocus

2023-05-01 Thread McDonald Richards
Vocus used to (and probably still do) have a script to prevent transit theft/leakage that will also block more specific prefixes advertised by downstream customers from other peering and transit. If you are advertising the /23 to them and pre-pending it, it's likely still going to block /23 or long

Re: [AusNOG] Whups, they did it again..

2023-03-23 Thread McDonald Richards
It's almost like BFD usage over carrier ethernet is a new thing... On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 2:17 PM James Morgan wrote: > Yeah, we lost a bunch of Vocus P2P L2 circuits for around 10-15 mins (we > aren’t in their DCs). > > > > Very nice that they keep the interfaces up on each end for you though…

Re: [AusNOG] Slack Channel

2018-12-16 Thread McDonald Richards
I thought slack was only useful for shitposting On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:03 PM Michael Hobl wrote: > Hi Cam, > > The previous Slack was deleted abruptly due to a dispute— there has been a > new Slack channel stood up to ensure neutrality going forward so it can > continue to fulfil its purpose

[AusNOG] CenturyLink/Level3 AS3356 at NSW-IX

2018-10-09 Thread McDonald Richards
Somebody at AS3356 has decided to advertise all the prefixes learned from the NSW-IX route-servers there across the Pacific and as a result they are congesting their port at the IX point. If you'd like to opt out of this madness and not get packet-loss from their US customers (like us) who don't h

Re: [AusNOG] Telstra mobile issues again?

2018-05-20 Thread McDonald Richards
No data service on my Telstra mobile in the middle of Sydney :( On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Cameron Murray wrote: > We're seeing the same thing in Slacks Creek QLD. > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:37 AM, Ross Wheeler wrote: > >> >> I'm seeing (mobile) services - voice and data - down or in

Re: [AusNOG] HE Routing (not a joke)

2018-05-15 Thread McDonald Richards
standard route policy: bits you pay me for > bits I get for free > bits I pay for. On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Pieter Berkel wrote: > Matt and Gavin are right: this asymmetric routing seems to only impacts > providers that buy transit from HE in SJC (TPG and Vocus being the two main > ones

Re: [AusNOG] Fibre Cut in Sydney - Vocus

2018-03-20 Thread McDonald Richards
Not that strange when the active client-side equipment is in the CLS and the data centers are within range of a normal 10km optic. Due to the close proximity of Equinix SY1/SY2 it was always a challenge trying to do diversity into the Alexandria CLS as well. Note: I have no information outside wha

Re: [AusNOG] Megaport IX Sydney - Sudden grows in number of prefixes

2018-01-11 Thread McDonald Richards
Pretty sure there are no rules On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Philip Loenneker < philip.loenne...@tasmanet.com.au> wrote: > Traffic engineering is difficult when people don’t play by the rules… > > > > Perhaps using the HE community strings which Jacob suggested would be more > helpful – yo