diff --git a/openshift-hack/cmd/k8s-tests-ext/environment_selectors.go b/openshift-hack/cmd/k8s-tests-ext/environment_selectors.go
index bf6aa2229330c..8ef097cd6e3a5 100644
--- a/openshift-hack/cmd/k8s-tests-ext/environment_selectors.go
+++ b/openshift-hack/cmd/k8s-tests-ext/environment_selectors.go
@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ func filterByPlatform(specs et.ExtensionTestSpecs) {
 			// https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-38840
 			"[Feature:LoadBalancer]",
 		},
+		"external": {
+			// LoadBalancer tests in 1.31 require explicit platform-specific skips
+			// https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-53249
+			"[sig-network] LoadBalancers [Feature:LoadBalancer] should be able to preserve UDP traffic when server pod cycles for a LoadBalancer service on",
+		},
 	}
 
 	for platform, exclusions := range platformExclusions {
diff --git a/openshift-hack/e2e/annotate/generated/zz_generated.annotations.go b/openshift-hack/e2e/annotate/generated/zz_generated.annotations.go
index 17c9002f506c8..49870333c7f64 100644
--- a/openshift-hack/e2e/annotate/generated/zz_generated.annotations.go
+++ b/openshift-hack/e2e/annotate/generated/zz_generated.annotations.go
@@ -1075,9 +1075,9 @@ var Annotations = map[string]string{
 
 	"[sig-network] LoadBalancers [Feature:LoadBalancer] should be able to create LoadBalancer Service without NodePort and change it [Slow]": " [Skipped:alibabacloud] [Skipped:baremetal] [Skipped:ibmcloud] [Skipped:kubevirt] [Skipped:nutanix] [Skipped:openstack] [Skipped:ovirt] [Skipped:vsphere] [Suite:k8s]",
 
-	"[sig-network] LoadBalancers [Feature:LoadBalancer] should be able to preserve UDP traffic when server pod cycles for a LoadBalancer service on different nodes": " [Skipped:alibabacloud] [Skipped:aws] [Skipped:baremetal] [Skipped:ibmcloud] [Skipped:kubevirt] [Skipped:nutanix] [Skipped:openstack] [Skipped:ovirt] [Skipped:vsphere] [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel] [Suite:k8s]",
+	"[sig-network] LoadBalancers [Feature:LoadBalancer] should be able to preserve UDP traffic when server pod cycles for a LoadBalancer service on different nodes": " [Skipped:alibabacloud] [Skipped:aws] [Skipped:baremetal] [Skipped:external] [Skipped:ibmcloud] [Skipped:kubevirt] [Skipped:nutanix] [Skipped:openstack] [Skipped:ovirt] [Skipped:vsphere] [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel] [Suite:k8s]",
 
-	"[sig-network] LoadBalancers [Feature:LoadBalancer] should be able to preserve UDP traffic when server pod cycles for a LoadBalancer service on the same nodes": " [Skipped:alibabacloud] [Skipped:aws] [Skipped:baremetal] [Skipped:ibmcloud] [Skipped:kubevirt] [Skipped:nutanix] [Skipped:openstack] [Skipped:ovirt] [Skipped:vsphere] [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel] [Suite:k8s]",
+	"[sig-network] LoadBalancers [Feature:LoadBalancer] should be able to preserve UDP traffic when server pod cycles for a LoadBalancer service on the same nodes": " [Skipped:alibabacloud] [Skipped:aws] [Skipped:baremetal] [Skipped:external] [Skipped:ibmcloud] [Skipped:kubevirt] [Skipped:nutanix] [Skipped:openstack] [Skipped:ovirt] [Skipped:vsphere] [Suite:openshift/conformance/parallel] [Suite:k8s]",
 
 	"[sig-network] LoadBalancers [Feature:LoadBalancer] should be able to switch session affinity for LoadBalancer service with Cluster traffic policy [Slow] [LinuxOnly]": " [Skipped:alibabacloud] [Skipped:aws] [Skipped:baremetal] [Skipped:ibmcloud] [Skipped:kubevirt] [Skipped:nutanix] [Skipped:openstack] [Skipped:ovirt] [Skipped:vsphere] [Suite:k8s]",
 
diff --git a/openshift-hack/e2e/annotate/rules.go b/openshift-hack/e2e/annotate/rules.go
index e238a8e8d8d47..2087d46b4a3f2 100644
--- a/openshift-hack/e2e/annotate/rules.go
+++ b/openshift-hack/e2e/annotate/rules.go
@@ -245,6 +245,11 @@ var (
 			`\[sig-network\] LoadBalancers \[Feature:LoadBalancer\] .* UDP`,
 			`\[sig-network\] LoadBalancers \[Feature:LoadBalancer\] .* session affinity`,
 		},
+		"[Skipped:external]": {
+			// LoadBalancer tests in 1.31 require explicit platform-specific skips
+			// https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-53249
+			`\[sig-network\] LoadBalancers \[Feature:LoadBalancer\] should be able to preserve UDP traffic when server pod cycles for a LoadBalancer service on`,
+		},
 		"[Skipped:azure]": {
 			"Networking should provide Internet connection for containers", // Azure does not allow ICMP traffic to internet.
 			// Azure CSI migration changed how we treat regions without zones.