[AusNOG] Optus downtime chat + affecting SMS verification to Telstra?

[DaZZa]

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 <jaedwards at 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 <dazzagibbs at 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, <francisfides at 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
>> >
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