[outages] Optus/Akamai

[Jared Mauch]

Disclaimer: I am employed by Akamai

I’m not aware of any changes that could have triggered this, if someone has information they can share you can reach out to me directly or to our NOCC.  I can be reached at jared at akamai.com if you have something private to share and my mobile number is easily findable as well.

- Jared

> On Nov 8, 2023, at 9:20 AM, Jay Ashworth via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> Off of Facebook of all places, I hear this report that Optus had a major outage in Australia last night, which is believed to have been a BGP screw up involving Akamai:
> 
> "Nope: it was Akamai increasing their advertised prefix count from their cdn nodes inside the Optus network, and Optus’s configured max-prefix settings on their core bgp sessions from their route reflectors weren’t quite high enough and their whole network went down.  Someone didn’t quite think through the value for internal max-prefix rules.."
> 
> Anybody confirm, deny, got hit by it?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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