Outage in New Zealand Internet Exchange

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

Resolved Minor

October 23, 2025 - Started 4 months ago - Lasted about 1 hour
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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 AKL-IX New Zealand Internet Exchange CHC-IX New Zealand Internet Exchange WLG-IX

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED 4 months ago - at 10/23/2025 05:50AM

This incident has been resolved.

INVESTIGATING 4 months ago - at 10/23/2025 05:13AM

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

INVESTIGATING 4 months ago - at 10/23/2025 05:12AM

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

INVESTIGATING 4 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.

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