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Optus outage: What caused the major network failure?

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Optus outage: What caused the major network failure?

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Australia@aussie.zone · 1 year ago

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What caused the Optus outage?

The network went dark at 4am this morning, cutting off millions and throwing hospitals and rail networks into chaos. Here’s what we know.

TL;DR Why is it always the routers?

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More detailed tl;dr: Suspected Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flooding possibly after software or firmware update.

Such degradation, so graceful.
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  I’m happy I switched away after their whole ID leak thing (and hiring Gladys).

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