[LINK] Optus Outage

[David]

 I believe TPG recently sold part of their backbone network to Vocus, and I wonder whether this resulted from someone trying to integrate it?  I wonder why SME network designers never seem to think something might fail; the ABC announced this morning that a large private hospital network was uncontactable.

_David Lochrin_

On 8/11/23 10:22, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
> Around 4am, Optus networks re-announced all their BGP routes at once
> https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as7474
> https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as4804
> This is indicative of a change management malfunction, akin to IBM's
> 2016 eCensus routers restarting with no routes
> https://www.itnews.com.au/news/ibm-treasury-in-settlement-talks-over-census-failure-440066
>
> The VoWifi infrastructure seems to be online but unable to connect any
> calls https://goughlui.com/2023/11/08/breaking-optus-nationwide-outage-08-11-2023/
> More alarmingly 000 doesn't work on landlines
> https://twitter.com/lucethoughts/status/1722029287727825124 contrary
> to advice from emergency services
> https://twitter.com/nswpolice/status/1722028862161449151
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 10:08 AM Tom Worthington
> <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
>> Any more news on what caused the Optus network outage? On ABC Canberra
>> Radio this morning I suggested it was most likely a software upgrade
>> which went wrong, and would be fixed by 6pm.
>>
>> Is VoWiFi working?
>>
>> I use Telstra, but when COVID-19 struck, I purchased an Optus 4G modem,
>> with an Optus SIM. This was in case Telstra went down.
>>
>>
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