[RndTbl] BGP data in real time?

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Will we ever get the full news?  But good anticipation Adam

Rogers service restored after Canada-wide outage, blames router 
malfunction

“We now believe we’ve narrowed the cause to a network system failure 
following a maintenance update in our core network, which caused some of 
our routers to malfunction early Friday morning,” Rogers’ Chief 
Executive Officer Tony Staffieri said in a statement.
https://www.rappler.com/technology/rogers-communications-service-restored-canada-wide-outage/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3969&pnespid=pf.Ij4RN.bDb86ugukayrfYJ5k8Tp31.igx4Hho_okiVMccOEvQBB_PRaxQr7fEltrd59En2

On 2022-07-08 14:27, Adam Thompson wrote:
> Pretty sure you won't see it there first, but...
> Cloudflare and Noction and Kentik are all already monitoring it.
> Don't know if they have anything more real time than blog posts,
> though.
> 
> The scope of the outage guarantees it's not just an eBGP failure -
> e911 operations should be unaffected by anything short of the complete
> collapse the the Telco core.
> 
> My money is on an internal naming service (not DNS, more like JNDI or
> the SS7 service naming service whose name I can't remember) and a
> botched upgrade, plus some previously-unknown circular dependencies
> preventing a cold restart.
> 
> -Adam
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> From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces at muug.ca> on behalf of John Lange
> <john at johnlange.ca>
> Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 4:15:39 PM
> To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable at muug.ca>
> Subject: Re: [RndTbl] BGP data in real time?
> 
> Just trying to track the Rogers AS812 route announcements to get a
> sense when they may be coming back up. As of 20:00 UTC (which I think
> is 3pm Central) they had zero routes.
> 
> John
> 
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 4:02 PM Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Oh, another way to get – not the BGP data, but other data that can
>> act as a proxy – is to run RIPE Atlas queries.  Among the queries
>> you can run are “traceroute” queries, which can give some of the
>> same resulting insights as having the raw BGP routes.
>> 
>> -Adam
>> 
>> From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces at muug.ca> On Behalf Of Adam
>> Thompson
>> Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 3:54 PM
>> To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <Roundtable at muug.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [RndTbl] BGP data in real time?
>> 
>> Generally correct.  The data is VERY resource-intensive to process
>> and AFAIK that delay literally just reflects the processing time.
>> 
>> If you want real-time, you generally need your own BGP router(a) so
>> you can suck data from it/them.
>> 
>> You can also pay obscene amounts of money to Oracle (who now owns a
>> few network intelligence companies including Thousandeyes among
>> others) to get closer to real time, depending on what data you're
>> after.
>> 
>> Email Theo and/or me with more details if you don't want to share
>> them publicly.
>> 
>> -Adam
>> 
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>> From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces at muug.ca> on behalf of John
>> Lange <john at johnlange.ca>
>> Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022, 15:45
>> To: Roundtable, MUUG <Roundtable at muug.ca>
>> Subject: [RndTbl] BGP data in real time?
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a good way for monitoring BGP route data in near
>> real-time? There are several public BGPPlay sites out there but the
>> data seems delayed?
>> 
>> That being said, one challenge I'm having with the sites is the time
>> stamps don't say which timezone they are in. I assume it is UTC but
>> if that is the case then the data is at least a couple hours old on
>> any of the sites I've found.
>> 
>> John
>> 
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