[AusNOG] Telstra outage?

[Kieran Murphy]

I'm not seeing NTP mentioned in any of the media articles. Are we just
assuming NTP because they said "time service"?

There are other time sync protocols.


On Thu, 9 July 2026, 7:12 am Phillip Grasso, <phillip.grasso at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Do you think it was related to software patching breaking time services?
> (NTP?)
>
> On Wed, 8 July 2026, 2:48 pm DaZZa, <dazzagibbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To paraphrase an oft-repeated meme
>>
>> It's not NTP
>> There's no way it's NTP
>> It was NTP
>>
>> Bets on this just being a speculator to take the heat off until they
>> find out what really went wrong?
>>
>> D
>>
>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 14:34, Luke Thompson <luke.t at tnc.works> wrote:
>> >
>> > Telstra's CFO has pointed to time / NTP:
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telstra-outage-down-network-mobile-outages-today
>> >
>> > Seems just over 4 hours of impact, and so far they're unsure what
>> caused it.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Luke Thompson, CTO
>> > The Network Crew P/L
>> >
>> > E: luke.t at tnc.works
>> > https://tnc.works
>> >
>> > On 8 July 2026 8:43:01 am Luke Thompson <luke.t at tnc.works> wrote:
>> >
>> >> & likewise, service restored at the moment.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Luke Thompson, CTO
>> >> The Network Crew P/L
>> >>
>> >> luke.t at tnc.works
>> >> https://tnc.works
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 8/7/2026 8:40 am, lauricat at fastmail.fm wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Good morning
>> >>>
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>> >>> Date: Wednesday, 8 July 2026 7:44 AM
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>> >>> G'day.
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