[AusNOG] Optus reporting major outage across its network

[DaZZa]

Scratch that - despite spending 45 minutes with support doing
diagnosis, and being assured it wasn;t a problem at their end - turns
out it was.

They made a change which broke ciphers on some phones, apparently. I
guess I was just the first one to complain and they brushed it off
until others started calling with the same issue.

D

On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 13:01, DaZZa <dazzagibbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As a possible data point - whatever it is appears to have broken some
> apparently unrelated services
>
> We use Duo for MFA - all my users on Optus (and other networks in some
> cases) are currently unable to authenticate using the Duo push app, me
> included.
>
> Phone effectively says "No internet" - when it does have it - when
> trying to reply to the push
>
> Duo claim their service uses Google/Apple's push services - which
> leads me to think that somehow, Google and Apple hook into Optus
> somewhere, and this issue is related - the timing is too coincidental
>
> But what do I know?
>
> D
>
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 09:46, Bradley Amm <brad at bradleyamm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Seems to be intermittent
> >
> > Affecting my Work Optus mobile but my non work Optus mobile is OK
> > Data appears fine
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: DaZZa <dazzagibbs at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 7:39 AM
> > To: Bradley Amm
> > Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Optus reporting major outage across its network
> >
> > Interesting.
> >
> > Sure not affecting my mobile (Sydney) and (thankfully!) not my
> > internet transit via them (this time)
> >
> > D
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 09:19, Bradley Amm <brad at bradleyamm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Optus outage wreaks havoc for thousands of users | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
> > >
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