[AusNOG] Telstra mobile down "nationwide"

[Cameron Murray]

http://www.9news.com.au/technology/2016/02/09/13/11/reports-of-telstra-mobile-services-outage

Keep backing up the bus...

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:54 PM, James Gray <james at gray.net.au> wrote:

> In addition to the traditional swiss-army knife known as "telnet", getting
> "curl" to dump just the HTTP headers is also a handy one to keep up your
> sleeve:
>
> 0:>*curl -I http://triplezero.com.au <http://triplezero.com.au>*
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Connection: close
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 04:45:18 GMT
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>
> Also telnet wont work with SSL sites (ie, https), but if you have openssl
> installed, you can do this instead:
>
> 0:>*openssl s_client -quiet -connect www.google.com:443
> <http://www.google.com:443>*
>
> The openssl method also works on other SSL-enabled service like POP3S and
> IMAPS etc. I have it aliased in my shell config:
> *alias stelnet="openssl s_client -quiet -connect"*
>
> ...then all I need to do is: "stelnet host:port"
>
> Just good to have tucked away in case you need to break out the
> command-line hammer.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
> On 9 February 2016 at 15:15, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Shane Chrisp wrote:
>>
>> Yep, that was just my fat fingers. I am trying to get to the
>>> triplezero.com.au but no go.
>>>
>>
>> traceroute to www.triplezero.gov.au (115.178.104.72), 30 hops max, 60
>>> byte
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> 11  bundle-ether2.civ.core2.canberra.telstra.net (203.50.6.82)  71.834
>>> ms 71.845 ms  70.450 ms
>>> 12  Bundle-Ethernet1.civ-edge901.canberra.telstra.net (203.50.8.35)
>>> 69.126 ms 69.138 ms  69.042 ms
>>> 13  telstr1248.lnk.telstra.net (165.228.21.206)  68.991 ms  68.981 ms
>>> 68.926 ms
>>> 14  * * *
>>> 15  * * *
>>> 16  * * *
>>>
>>
>>
>> Traceroute is only one tool in a toolbox, and frequently not as helpful
>> as you might hope.
>>
>>  5  bundle-ether2.chw-edge902.sydney.telstra.net (203.50.11.105)  2.002
>> ms
>>  6  bundle-ether2.dkn-core1.canberra.telstra.net (203.50.6.129)  8.918 ms
>>  7  bundle-ether2.civ.core2.canberra.telstra.net (203.50.6.82)  9.334 ms
>>  8  Bundle-Ethernet1.civ-edge901.canberra.telstra.net (203.50.8.35)
>> 7.822 ms
>>  9  telstr1248.lnk.telstra.net (165.228.21.206)  9.189 ms
>> 10  *
>> 11  *
>>
>> Yes, it appear to not be reachable....
>>
>> However using another tool  it clearly IS working....
>>
>> # telnet triplezero.gov.au 80
>> Trying 2403:d500::48...
>> telnet: connect to address 2403:d500::48: No route to host
>> Trying 115.178.104.72...
>> Connected to triplezero.gov.au.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> GET / http/1.0
>>
>> HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
>> Cache-Control: no-cache
>>
>>
>>
>> There's also a hint there....
>>
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