The discussion I was having today with some colleagues was around the week 
rollover of GPS – 1024 weeks = 19.6 years – exactly where the time went back to 
(2006).
Unpatched NTP master perhaps?
Will be interesting to see the RCA if one is ever published.


From: AusNOG <[email protected]> on behalf of Robert Hudson 
<[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 18:31
To: DaZZa <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Luke Thompson 
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Telstra outage?

You know what NTP can rely on?

DNS.

On Wed, 8 July 2026, 6:48 am DaZZa, 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
To paraphrase an oft-repeated meme

It's not NTP
There's no way it's NTP
It was NTP

Bets on this just being a speculator to take the heat off until they
find out what really went wrong?

D

On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 14:34, Luke Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Telstra's CFO has pointed to time / NTP:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telstra-outage-down-network-mobile-outages-today
>
> Seems just over 4 hours of impact, and so far they're unsure what caused it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luke Thompson, CTO
> The Network Crew P/L
>
> E: [email protected]
> https://tnc.works
>
> On 8 July 2026 8:43:01 am Luke Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> & likewise, service restored at the moment.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Luke Thompson, CTO
>> The Network Crew P/L
>>
>> [email protected]
>> https://tnc.works
>>
>>
>> On 8/7/2026 8:40 am, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good morning
>>>
>>> Back here. Regional Vic  Boost and T prepaid mobile data.
>>>
>>> ----- Original message -----
>>> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [AusNOG] Telstra outage?
>>> Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2026 7:44 AM
>>>
>>> G'day.
>>>
>>> How is T where you are?
>>>
>>> Regional Vic Boost network no calls other than emergency can be made.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Laurie
>>>
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