Yeah, I'd be willing to bet that it's a change which wasn't thoroughly tested before being rolled out, and which had an inadequate backout plan.
Interestingly, my Optus mobile actually had a valid connection for a short time - wasn't able to actually DO anything, but was connected to the OPtus network - but it's now gone to "SOS" mode. D On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 at 10:01, John Edwards <jaedwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The 4am Wednesday morning outage start looks suspiciously like a firmware > upgrade window. > > I note that Optus devices where I am are showing "SoS" which indicates the > tower is unable to reach the location register, which presumably is on a > private network and indicative of a pretty major fault rather than just IP. > > John > > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 at 09:10, DaZZa <dazzagi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The Optus hamster finally died of old age. >> >> I would suggest your SMS issues would be caused by whoever is issuing >> the SMS using Optus - not so much by the Telstra end receiving it. >> >> Anecdotally, Optus enterprise/wholesale appears to be still functional >> - at least my link appears to be working fine - and my BGP >> advertisements are still being seen overseas - seems to be only NBN >> and mobile based services which are busted >> >> D >> >> On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 at 09:27, <francisfi...@mailup.net> wrote: >> > >> > Morning all, >> > Hope the chaos isn't too hard on your work/family. >> > I have had trouble with a couple of SMS verifications coming through to >> > me, my Telstra number. Is this related? >> > >> > Any general banter around the downtime would be fine too - looks like it >> > all began at 4.07am AEDT? >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > -- >> > >> > francisfi...@mailup.net >> > _______________________________________________ >> > AusNOG mailing list >> > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net >> > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> >> >> >> -- >> veg·e·tar·i·an: >> Ancient tribal slang for the village idiot who can't hunt, fish or ride >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net >> https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog -- veg·e·tar·i·an: Ancient tribal slang for the village idiot who can't hunt, fish or ride _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
