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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > To: Link mailing list <[email protected]> > > 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 ] > > > -- > Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] > T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com > > Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA > > Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. > Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > -- Narelle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
