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Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 @tubsta@social.bsdlab.au
· 3mo ago
So #Telstra was feeding all their network gear straight from Stratum 1 servers. If they had intermediary Stratum 2 servers in play with constraint facilities, the bad 2006-reset Stratum 1 server would have been ignored, saving the network from complete disaster. #mytake
Neglected software update caused widespread Telstra network outage, CEO tells Senate inquiry
theguardian.com

Neglected software update caused widespread Telstra network outage, CEO tells Senate inquiry

Vicki Brady told senators maintenance staff were unaware of mass outage risk as critical software failure ‘rippled slowly across the network’

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Tim 🎮 @timixretroplays@digipres.club
· 3mo ago
"...connection issues were mostly being reported in Australia's eastern states". Is this not simply a map of #Australia's population density? #Telstra (Article here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-09/telstra-outage-still-impacting-triple-zero-calls/106895430)
abc.net.au

Telstra solves 'software defect' after hundreds of failed Triple Zero calls

Telstra has implemented a fresh "solution" to resolve a secondary software defect that left hundreds of customers unable to make Triple Zero calls during a nationwide network outage.

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petros @petros@literatur.social
· 3mo ago
"Runs since 1998. What an uptime. 28 years!" "Wow! But it's old. Runs FreeBSD 3.4. There are no patches for it. For decades. Switch it off." "Someone installed NTP on it." "Don't know. Can't be in use. Just switch it off." "Okay, let's see what happens" A day later in the news: "Australia came to a standstill when its biggest mobile network hit an outage. Trains, EFTPOS machines and emergency calls stopped working." #microfiction #Telstra
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Joanna Holman @joannaholman@aus.social
· 4mo ago
The absolute audacity of the #telstra CFO to get up and say they don’t know why a national outage impacting huge numbers of people, businesses and essential services has happened or when it is getting fixed but that it is probably only impacting thousands not tens of thousands of people around the country and that we can still trust Telstra. Imagine getting paid millions to be that useless
abc.net.au

Henderson 'not going to apologise' for test calls to Triple Zero, Telstra CFO says service now restored — as it happened

Telstra says services have been restored after its mobile network suffered a nationwide outage on Wednesday morning.

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Nikolai Hampton 💾 @nikolaihampton@infosec.exchange
· 4mo ago
Oh.. Telstra fault looks like core network issue! It seems a heap of prefixes (blocks of Telstra network addresses) just got updated through different routes at 3am (i.e. the Internet suddenly realised they can't reach parts of Telstra so there was a mad scramble to find alternate routes!) So probably NOT BGP (this time!), but definitely a big issue on some core routing/signalling infrastructure! #telstra #outage #australia #internet
stat.ripe.net

BGP Update Activity

Shows the frequency of BGP announcement and withdrawal updates for a prefix or ASN over time, normalised to an updates/hour rate.

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