TL;DR Why is it always the routers?
Cause it’s easy to blame routers.
EDIT: also wtf:
What caused the Optus outage?
Optus is yet to confirm the reason behind the outage
Cool article
More detailed tl;dr: Suspected Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flooding possibly after software or firmware update.
Such degradation, so graceful.
I’m happy I switched away after their whole ID leak thing (and hiring Gladys).
Actual TL;DR is:
Optus is yet to confirm the reason behind the outage.
The rest is speculation. Which we are already doing.
Hubris.
Also,
- monolithic infrastructure with reduced redundancy.
- executives focusing on their own personal issues over their company obligations.
- to distract shareholders from the terrible financials.
They blame a large failure causing the large failure.
Wellgreat. How very informative.
This is a nightmare scenario where a group of techs/engineers suddenly realise their actions can kill people.
I wonder how many people tried to dial emergency services or a support service and couldn’t get through…
Routers been in place for decades with limited space for BGP routes.
Can’t replace them because it would be a major outage, can’t replace them because they’re the backbone of the network.
Best solution is for every single customer to churn to different providers.
This will reduce load on the network and allow Optus to invest the required time to reengineer their network with redundancy, without inconveniencing any customers.
Once they iron out their issues, they can start recruiting customers back.
It is up to every customer who appreciates Optus to give them this opportunity.
