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Looking forward to read about the postmortem analysis of this outage, and whether this operator had single points of failure.
I wonder if it will be anything like the Rogers outage in Canada. A bad software maintenance update made their infrastructure malfunction and so many people were offline from a few days to a week.
Yeah sounds like it was something similar. CloudFlare showed spikes in BGP announcements (the Border Gateway Protocol - basically how each network node knows it’s neighbours and the route through that neighbourhood) when the system went down. So Optus stopped telling the world it existed and everything updated around it, shutting it out from the internet.
The silver lining is that people will now not be so quick to shift to a cashless society. ABC radio had some wanker from ANU pushing that a couple of months ago on several programs but he failed to bring up the issues of privacy and removing the control from RBA to control the money supply.
