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Netflix becomes opt-in

This morning, members received an email regarding a configuration issue with Netflix caches. The issue was recently identified and has since been resolved. As a result, members will need to complete the following process to access these caches: 

1. Create an AS-SET that lists your residential customers or provide the information to our team. 

2. Tag BGP advertisements to route-servers with the following communities, based on peering location. 

  • 10084:2504 WA OCA Opt-In 
  • 10084:2514 VIC OCA Opt-In 
  • 10084:2524 QLD OCA Opt-In 
  • 10084:2544 NSW OCA Opt-In 
  • 10084:2534 SA OCA Opt-In 

If you require any further information or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our team at support@internet.asn.au or call us on 1300 793 320. 

Record Numbers for Both IAA and NZIX

During the month of August, both IAA and New Zealand Internet Exchange (NZIX) hit new records across their exchanges. With half of Australia in lockdown, we hit a new record of 790Gbps over the weekend ending Sunday, August 22, 2021, breaking our previous record of 750Gbps.

In comparison, as lockdown commenced across the ditch, so too did the spikes in traffic across AKL-IX and CHC-IX, with Auckland reaching an all-time high of 341Gbps with plenty of room to spare. The peaks continued across the remainder of the week finishing off with a Friday afternoon high of 335Gbps.

Primus DC – September Closure

Primus DC, located at 55 King Street, Melbourne, is closing, and we have been advised that we need to vacate the premises by 30 September 2021. Unfortunately, this means members with ports within the data centre will be affected as we will no longer be offering services from this facility after that date.

Rest assured that we are working hard to ensure service continuity despite the closure and request that members with a current service at 55 King Street migrate to any of our other sites on VIC-IX. All location options can be found on our website. Hopefully, you’ve already seen the relocation of the route server from that site, and a shorter ring transit time with our rearrangements already completed.

If you require any further information or assistance with your migration, please get in touch at peering@internet.asn.au Time is running out!

Farewell Primus DC

IAA has been notified of the upcoming closure of Primus DC, located at 55 King Street, Melbourne.

Vocus has advised us that we need to vacate the premises by 30 September 2021. Unfortunately, this means members with ports within the data centre will be affected as IAA will no longer be able to offer services from this facility after that date.

Rest assured that we are working hard to ensure service continuity despite the closure and request that members with a current service at 55 King Street migrate to any of our other sites on VIC-IX. All location options can be found on our website.

If you require any further information or assistance with your migration, please get in touch at peering@internet.asn.au

Global Switch Sydney Shared Space Consolidation – 6-month notice

If you have a service in our shared space in Global Switch Sydney, it’s time to be on the move! Notices have been issued to all members who are affected and have been advised that the date for shutdown is Thursday, January 27 2022. If you need to relocate your services, please choose one of our established permanent racks or another alternative location.

Unfortunately, these racks are no longer feasible for us to operate as they are not backed by a contract, are physically shared, and are poorly documented. They are not capable of providing the level of service members expect from us as they are restricted by the multi-tenanted nature of Global Switch, which has caused issues with the design and resilience. Additionally, the switching hardware has also reached the end of life and will not be utilised in future on the IX.

If you have any questions or require any assistance, please get in touch with our tech team at peering@internet.asn.au

AS10084 Network TLC and Re-architecture

We are happy to announce that Aussie Broadband has delivered two new transit services to IAA. Over the next month, our engineers will be working towards migrating AS10084 to the new paths, and any members affected by the changes will be notified accordingly.

Using the new paths means we can reduce complexity by retiring old hardware and standardise the hardware in use for the AS10084 across Australia.

Once this network is up and running, we plan to increase visibility to our members by providing shiny new, advanced looking glasses – Hyperglass!

Bur.st Upgrade

Members may remember that a number of years ago we inherited a hosting environment called Bur.st, offering email, DNS, and web hosting with shell access. The system runs on a rather dated Linux distribution and we are pleased to announce a new approach to the system.

As a member benefit, we would like to offer interested members a new hosting environment with plesk access, DNS and mail, with the potential to offer a trimmed time bound shell access. We plan to offer this on a trial basis for the next 12 months to gauge whether members find it useful.

The existing Bur.st system would be decommissioned, as it cannot support appropriate security, such as SSH, so current users would have to migrate their own data over. We see this as a useful member benefit to professional members and those operating small businesses wanting a secondary DNS.

We will be in touch with users over the next couple of months to get the migration going.

Fun with BFD

Our tech team had a rude reminder of when to use bi-directional failure detection (BFD), and when not to, that led to a rather full excursion into bug hunting. We all know that BFD is best used when you have a multi-point layer two connection with multiple pieces of active equipment in the path, such as a tunnel or series of devices in bridging mode. The logic being that BFD will detect a failure on the end-to-end path when the individual physical links are mostly – but not all – working and save the effort and time of a routing protocol reconvergence. The issue that arose was that one of our switches was retaining a path in hardware, when the software had marked it as deleted, so the hardware would forward, but the software would not. Turns out, there’s a bug which causes point-to-point OSPF sessions to fail. If you see some early morning VLANs being rearranged, rest assured your packets are being passed while we purge the state tables. It also means we’re removing unnecessary protocols on direct point-to-point links but will retain it where is makes sense such as our intercapital links.

Closure of Primus DC

IAA has been notified of the upcoming closure of Melbourne’s old Primus DC, located at 55 King Street. We have been advised by Vocus that we need to vacate the premises by August 1st. Unfortunately this means members with ports within the datacentre will be affected as IAA will no longer be able to continue offering services from this facility. Members should rest assured that we are working hard to ensure your services are not affected by this closure and ask anyone with a current service at 55 King to migrate to any of the other sites in VIC-IX. All location options can be found on our website. If you need more information or help with your migration, email peering@internet.asn.au

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