[AusNOG] Major Telstra Outage - Darwin, affecting voice and data services

Tue Apr 7 16:07:11 EST 2009

Guess they won't be able to attack Optus with quite the fervor they've  
done before over QLD.

MMC

On 07/04/2009, at 3:34 PM, Darren Moss wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> Exchange hardware failure.
> They were talking about flying in equipment.
>
> All our services went down 1:40am AEST.
> Service restored at 11:37am AEST.
>
> Took down everything, including NT Govt.
> I am waiting for a detailed report on what happened.
>
> We've seen similar outages before, and they were previously related  
> to power at the exchange.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Darren Moss
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> ] On Behalf Of Colwell, Scott
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2009 3:21 PM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Major Telstra Outage - Darwin, affecting voice  
> and data services
>
> I've read the article on the ABC website (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/07/2536724.htm 
> )
>
> Does anybody know more about what happened?
>
> Starting at 1am sounds like a maintenance gone bad.....
>
> Scott
>
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> ] On Behalf Of Darren Moss
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2009 8:31 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] Major Telstra Outage - Darwin,affecting voice and  
> data services
>
> Hi Noggers,
>
> There is currently a major outage in Darwin, affecting voice and  
> data services pretty much everywhere.
>
> ISDN down, BDSL down, Frame services down, ADSL down.
>
> Telstra does not have an ETA at this stage, however the last update  
> was they are locating replacement hardware.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Darren Moss
> General Manager, Director
> [p] 1300 131 083 x105 [f] 03 9532 6100 [m] 0421 042 999
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> [h] www.em3.com.au/TechnicalSupport
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>
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