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   Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:20:01 JST Bill Woodcock

   • Kevin Beaumont
   @GossiTheDog
   
   Uh... What evidence do you have that it had to do with peering?
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     Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:41:34 JST Bill Woodcock

     • Kevin Beaumont
     @GossiTheDog
     
     That doesn't explain reorders on PRI trunks, nor does it explain AT&T mobile-to-mobile calling being down.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:42:14 JST feld

     • Kevin Beaumont
     @GossiTheDog That's stupid, why would the CEO be responsible for a BGP change?
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     Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:48:23 JST Bill Woodcock

     • Kevin Beaumont
     @GossiTheDog
     
     The CNN article also only cites one anonymous source for that, and doesn't say that the source actually has any inside knowledge.
     
     Again, if you can posit a causal link between anything to do with peering, and the observed failures, I'm all ears.
     
     Until then, canonically, it was the DNS.
     
     No, just kidding. For once, I don't think there's any plausible link with the DNS either.
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     Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:58:50 JST Bill Woodcock

     • Kevin Beaumont
     @GossiTheDog
     
     The Optus outage was indeed iBGP, and it affected the underlying data routing across their network. That was visible in their Internet service. Have you seen any reports of AT&T fixed broadband having been affected? If it had anything to do with peering, that would also have been down. The fact that AT&T was urging affected customers to switch to "wi-fi calling" and that that was mostly working, would seem to indicate that there were not problems on the data network. That some "wi-fi calls" were not going through can be attributed, like the people complaining to T-Mobile and Verizon, to people trying to reach AT&T mobile customers.
     
     Again, I don't yet have a theory that I believe holds water, I'm just trying to rule out things that appear to be contradicted by the facts as reported thus far.
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     Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 08:02:10 JST Bill Woodcock

     • Kevin Beaumont
     @GossiTheDog
     
     If it was white-labeled from another provider?
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     Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 08:21:02 JST Bill Woodcock

     • Kevin Beaumont
     @GossiTheDog
     
     Explain?
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     Future Sprog (futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 08:26:48 JST Future Sprog

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     • Kevin Beaumont

     One or both of you have server clock issues.

     You’re chatting backwards and forwards through time.

     Can the one in the future please tell us the answer from AT&T because I was betting on Cyber Squirrel.

     @woody @GossiTheDog

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     fireshaper :lpuverified: (fireshaper@locksport.space)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:30:27 JST fireshaper :lpuverified:

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog I heard from someone in the telco field that it was due to a bad update for the leap year.