[LINK] Optus Outage Origins (OOO, nasty)

[Narelle Clark]

Optus and Singtel have issued further statements, basically Singtel says it
upgraded a router, Optus' network fell over, Singtel will help them learn
their lessons, and "network resilience remains a top priority of the
Singtel Group".

I'm sure the next articles coming out will be entertaining.

Narelle

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 15:53, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
wrote:

> > On 13/11/23 17:06, Roger Clarke wrote:
> >> This seems to indicate that the interpolations made early by linkers
> >> and others were pretty close to what actually happened ...
>
>
> On 16/11/23 2:45 pm, Tom Worthington wrote:
> > Anything more known? ABC New Radio want to talk to me Friday morning. I
> > am assuming it is about the Optus outage.
>
> It might be worth running to ground who started the story (yesterday?)
> about it being Singtel's fault, i.e. inadequate understanding by a tech
> geographically and culturally remote from the area of ops.
>
> It 'wasn't denied', and hence assumed to be true.
>
> Chatting to Nigel Phair at the ACS Digital Pulse launch last night, my
> impression was he had the same impression (but it was only an aside).
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Optus Outage
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 17:35:13 +1100
> From: Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net>
> To: Link mailing list <link at anu.edu.au>
>
> Great post.
>
>   >But here's the NEXT problem - all Optus networking is offshore.
> There's almost no-one in Australia who can physically fix it.
>
>   >So what do you do when your offshore outsourced network guys break
> your core network infrastructure, and you've retrenched everyone who can
> fix it locally?
>
>   >You have a 7 hour outage, that's what you do.
>
> Ouch!
>
> We have government and other services depending on a foreign company
> with critical infrastructure overseas!!!!
>
>
> On 2023/11/9 11:33 am, Kate Lance wrote:
>  > Hi Narelle,
>  >
>  > An interesting post on Mastodon from Rob Thomas, supporting the idea
> it was
>  > a route reflector overload -
>  > https://mastodon.au/@xrobau/111376847362633903
>
> [ Long post, that seesm to have been pretty close to the real story ]
>
>
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