[Outages-discussion] Recent outage in Australia affecting Telstra

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:18:01PM +0000, Tom Storey wrote:
> Perhaps it would be a good time for everyone to remember the
> importance of safe edge routing practices following an outage that hit
> Telstra (Australia's largest telco) pretty hard a day or two ago. An
> outage which could have very well been avoided, or at least minimised
> in impact.
> 
> One of Telstra's downstream customers, a smaller ISP called Dodo,
> accidentally announced the global table to Telstra (or perhaps a very
> large portion of it.) Enough of it to cause major disruption.

This is good.  There is a chance that Telstra will learn from it, and
do proper customer-facing filters now.

OTOH, there also is a chance that Telstra lawyers will just sue the 
customer, and not change anything...

gert
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