What caused the Optus outage?
www.smh.com.au
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?

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
    8·
    11 months ago

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

    Such degradation, so graceful.

    • jonne
      4·
      11 months ago

      I’m happy I switched away after their whole ID leak thing (and hiring Gladys).