[RPKI] APNIC had an unexpected drop in VRP 00:00 - 02:00

[George Michaelson]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:45 AM Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 01:29:58PM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
> > We have received reports that our RPKI repository was producing zero
> > VRP from 00:00 to 02:00  today, Tuesday 01 December. This was visible
> > in Seattle and may have been seen elsewhere.
> >
> > We are looking into what happened and will report back as soon as possible.
>
> Some preliminary analysis on my side suggests this event might have been
> RRDP-specific.
>
> On (multiple) rsync-only RPKI collectors I did not observe a drop in
> VRPs in the 00:00-02:00 UTC time frame. Hope this helps debugging.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job

We continue to investigate.

Not all RPs saw this, and it appears that the problem was due to
recent updates to some relying party software.

cheers

-George