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Optus says changes after a 'routine software upgrade' to blame for nationwide service outage (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/australia@aussie.zone
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So it turns out that the cause was indeed a rogue change they couldn't roll back as we had been speculating.

Weird that whatever this issue is didn't occur in their test environment before they deployed into Production. I wonder why that is.

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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's as if they were running Windows 10 Home on their servers and had an upgrade forced onto them

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    how else do you explain to the layman “catastrophic failure in the configuration update of core network infrastructure and its preceding, meant-to-be-soundproof, processes”

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