Rogers Outage Canada

Pete Baldwin - TCC pete at tccmail.ca
Fri Jul 8 19:37:22 UTC 2022


Seems like their external BGP peers are dead.  If their internal network 
is the same, and they carry M2PA etc, or use BGP/MPLS to carry SS7 
traffic, or their softswitches/STPs rely on BGP/MPLS in some way then 
SS7 might exist, but not be functional.

-- 
Pete Baldwin


On 2022-07-08 15:30, jim deleskie wrote:
> i cant see BGP taking out SS7.
> 
> -jim
> 
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 2:45 PM Snowmobile2004 <greenjosh6499 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:greenjosh6499 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     According to Cloudflare Radar
>     <https://radar.cloudflare.com/asn/812?date_filter=last_24_hours>,
>     Rogers BGP announcements spiked massively to levels 536,777% higher
>     than normal (343,601 vs 64 normally) just minutes before the outage.
>     I would not be surprised if this happened to be the culprit.
> 
>     Regards,
>     Josh Green
> 
>     On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 2:19 PM Andrew Paolucci via NANOG
>     <nanog at nanog.org <mailto:nanog at nanog.org>> wrote:
> 
>         In the early hours of the morning around 2-3am my modem got hit
>         with a configuration update that caused a DHCP release that
>         wasn't renewed for about two hours, after rollback the
>         connection was fine for 3 hours before this network wide outage.
> 
> 
>         Maybe a failed night time update was attempted again during
>         office hours, I've heard daytime guys are still WFH and night
>         shift is in building.
> 
> 
>         I expect we'll never get a real explanation. Rogers is notorious
>         for withholding any type of helpful or technical information.
> 
> 
>         Sent from my inoperable Rogers Mobile via emergency eSIM.
> 
> 
>         Regards,
> 
>         Andrew Paolucci
>         -------- Original Message --------
>         On Jul. 8, 2022, 1:48 p.m., Jay Hennigan < jay at west.net
>         <mailto:jay at west.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
>             On 7/8/22 07:44, Robert DeVita wrote: > Does anyone have
>             information on a widespread Rogers outage in Canada. I >
>             have customers with multiple sites down. There's discussion
>             on the Outages mailing list. Seems widespread, affecting all
>             services, mobile, voice, Internet. No cause or ETR posted
>             yet. -- Jay Hennigan - jay at west.net <mailto:jay at west.net>
>             Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV 
> 
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     *Josh Green.*
> 


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