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Absolutely. Consumer and enterprise alike, EFTPOS, internet, landlines, mobiles, roaming, all down. Hospitals and train networks heavily impacted as well.

• wizofaus 3y ago
  It baffles me how they can have one single point of failure for their entire national cellular + fibre voice & data network, and for it to take so long to fix.
  • Evolution314 3y ago
    You'd expect there would be redundancy in their core network which is why I'm leaning towards a DNS issue... It's always DNS after all.
    • wizofaus 3y ago
      How would that explain the voice/phone network being out? And you'd think packets would still be able to make it through the network even without DNS.
    • liamwire 3y ago
      It’s BGP, not DNS.
  • liamwire 3y ago
    If it’s BGP as is currently believed to be the case, it’s somewhat understandable. Same thing tripped up Facebook not too long ago.
• Evolution314 3y ago
  Some sort of DNS issue? Maybe a botched change pushed out network wide? Surely if it was a change pushed out it would be rolled back by now? Edit: On second thought, if they've got no network & no out-of-band - it may take a while... they may need to physically visit each site to re-install the backed-up version!
  • sathyabhat 3y ago
    it's not DNS - there's no mobile network at all.
    • cottsak 3y ago
      I think that’s how they respond to a major issue- they take down all the radio connections while they isolate the issue. Otherwise reconnect attempts will overwhelm the systems
      • sathyabhat 3y ago
        Hm that makes sense.
  • liamwire 3y ago
    BGP route reflectors seem to be the problem.