Amazon Web Services (AWS) ASN 16509 peering on NSW-IX has recently advised our technical team of a typo in their LAG IPv6 address. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a large number of NSW-IX members peering with an incorrect IPv6 address.

To rectify this issue, AWS has requested that all peers check and reconfigure the address if required. Please see the information below:

Incorrect: IPv4 218.100.52.9. IPv6 2001:7fa:11:4:0:470d:0:1
Correct: IPv4 218.100.52.9. IPv6 2001:7fa:11:4:0:407d:0:1

If you would like any further information regarding this matter, please get in contact with AWS via peering-apac@amazon.com

Members, please remember our end-of-year embargo period is nearing. It runs from Friday 23 December 2022 to Sunday 8 January 2023 (inclusive). During this time we will not be provisioning any new services or changing existing services. Rest assured, support staff will be on call if any urgent issues or network emergencies arise. Any orders or change requests need to be submitted by Friday 9 December 2022.

We achieved an aggregate peak data flow of over 500 Gbps across NSW-IX. This occurred on Wednesday 16 November when Call of Duty: Warzone 2 was released on Steam – the game data was served to members from our Steam content caches.  

IAA has never had that much traffic across NSW-IX (or indeed any single IX) in our history. Not bad for our second-youngest IX, which is already our largest by data volume. 

It’s great news for members as it’s further evidence that getting data via settlement-free peering means a massive reduction in expenditure on internet-transit costs.

We have completed deployment of our local (non-authoritative) Internet Route Registry (IRR) mirror, which has already yielded some impressive benefits for members. 

Route server configuration generation and update times have been cut from approximately 15 minutes to approximately one minute. These times apply to the removal of prefix-set expansion from configuration updates as we currently do not filter on prefix-sets. But even with prefix-set generation included, the generation and update times are now only about 5 minutes – this is one-third of what they used to be! 

Additionally, generation/update runs are no longer failing due to connectivity issues or rate limiting by upstream IRR database providers. This was a consistent issue we were running into, especially when an out-of-cycle update was requested by a member to incorporate a change to their allowed ASNs or prefixes. 

We successfully completed power remediation works at QV1 on 18 October, following several power disruptions to the facility in recent months. Over what seemed like a never–ending night we installed a new UPS with better monitoring, a new automatic transfer switch and a new mechanical bypass for the UPS, as well as additional improvements to the redundancy of power feeds to each rack to eliminate single points of failure. This new equipment and configuration are designed to ensure a reliable source of power to all racks in the WA–IX room during power disruptions to the wider QV1 building. We thank everyone for their patience in waiting for this work to happen, but we wanted to make sure it went in right, which of course meant appropriate supervision of the work as it happened.