Outage in New Zealand Internet Exchange

[EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE] National | Route Server 1 | BGP Daemon Upgrade

Resolved Minor

October 23, 2025 - Started 6 months ago - Lasted about 1 hour
Official incident page

Incident Report

NZIX engineers will be applying emergency upgrades to RS1 nationally to resolve the IPv6 malformed BGP update issue members are experiencing, currently RS2 is unaffected due to recent maintenance (https://status.ix.nz/incidents/db3kv9f3py9x) so no negative impact is expected should you be peering with RS2. Members should expect up to ~60 minutes downtime toward RS1 whilst various upgrades are applied and verification checks are completed.

Components affected

New Zealand Internet Exchange CHC-IX New Zealand Internet Exchange WLG-IX New Zealand Internet Exchange AKL-IX

Trusted by 1,000+ teams

The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection

Stop finding out about outages from your users. Monitor 6,320+ cloud services and get alerted the second something breaks.

Start Free Trial

No credit card
14-day trial
2-minute setup

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED 6 months ago - at 10/23/2025 05:50AM

This incident has been resolved.

INVESTIGATING 6 months ago - at 10/23/2025 05:13AM

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

INVESTIGATING 6 months ago - at 10/23/2025 05:12AM

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

INVESTIGATING 6 months ago - at 10/23/2025 04:34AM

NZIX engineers will be applying emergency upgrades to RS1 nationally to resolve the IPv6 malformed BGP update issue members are experiencing, currently RS2 is unaffected due to recent maintenance (https://status.ix.nz/incidents/db3kv9f3py9x) so no negative impact is expected should you be peering with RS2.

Members should expect up to ~60 minutes downtime toward RS1 whilst various upgrades are applied and verification checks are completed.

Latest New Zealand Internet Exchange outages

[PORTAL] Card Payment Failures | Merchant Issues - 19 days ago

[OUTAGE] CHC-IX | RS1 Down - 6 months ago

[OUTAGE] AKL-IX | v6 flap malformed attribute - 6 months ago

[EMERGENCY OUTAGE] CHC-IX | CCL | pe1.chc2 Switch Reboot - about 3 years ago

[OUTAGE] AKL-IX | Layer 2 reachability - about 3 years ago

The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection

With IsDown, you can monitor all your critical services' official status pages from one centralized dashboard and receive instant alerts the moment an outage is detected. Say goodbye to constantly checking multiple sites for updates and stay ahead of outages with IsDown.

Start free trial

No credit card required · Cancel anytime · 6320 services available

Integrations with Slack Microsoft Teams Google Chat Datadog PagerDuty Zapier Discord Webhook