Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

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scriptsmith•about 1 hour ago

Lots of bloviating AI-prose. Here's the original report:

https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/what-we-ve-learned-from-...

https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...

anitil•20 minutes ago

They're pretty readable, I recommend that second one (though it leaves some questions I have unanswered). It's a good example of how latent issues with a large system can go unrecognised for a long time before a seeming unrelated change can trigger a cascading failure

rcaught•about 2 hours ago

> Each decision solved the problem in front of it. Nobody was asked to look at the sum of all actions.

This is the perfect description of Telstra as a company.

_kb•about 1 hour ago

Direct link to the analysis report: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...

cube00•about 2 hours ago

Author needs to decide which end of the stratum stack they want as the top.

> This design from 2010 had at the top stratum 1 sources at Australia's National Measurement Institute (NMI)

> Among otherwise comparable candidates, the lower stratum carries more weight.

ipython•about 1 hour ago

All I could think of while reading this was “has no one heard of ntptrace?”

RockRobotRock•about 2 hours ago

Shout out to the Jeff Geerling video about this

hmartin•about 1 hour ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9xQy-dsQo

rmunn•about 1 hour ago

It's funny, but I had the same thing happen to me once. One day, overnight, my computer decided it was 2006.

It happened twenty years ago...

;-)

Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

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