Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

6 comments

• scriptsmith 13 minutes ago
  Lots of bloviating AI-prose. Here's the original report:

  https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/what-we-ve-learned-from-...

  https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...
• _kb 8 minutes ago
  Direct link to the analysis report: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...
• ipython 7 minutes ago
  All I could think of while reading this was “has no one heard of ntptrace?”
• rcaught 1 hour ago
  > Each decision solved the problem in front of it. Nobody was asked to look at the sum of all actions.

  This is the perfect description of Telstra as a company.
• cube00 1 hour ago
  Author needs to decide which end of the stratum stack they want as the top.

  >This design from 2010 had at the top stratum 1 sources at Australia's National Measurement Institute (NMI)

  >Among otherwise comparable candidates, the lower stratum carries more weight.
• RockRobotRock 1 hour ago
  Shout out to the Jeff Geerling video about this
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  • hmartin 31 minutes ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9xQy-dsQo