Optus has recognized the reason for the nationwide outage final Wednesday, which shut its whole community down for about 7 hours, leaving 10 million Australians with out telephone service or entry to the web.
A number of layers within the community exceeded preset security ranges on key routers which couldn’t deal with the adjustments and due to this fact a variety of them disconnected from the core community to guard themselves.
The assertion by Optus reveals it was not a malicious assault which the federal government has been saying for days.
Optus’ upgrades prompted a flow-on impact and they’re working to stop this from ever taking place once more.
The telecommunications firm mentioned in an announcement this afternoon: “The Optus community obtained adjustments to routing info from a global peering community following a routine software program improve. These routing info adjustments propagated by a number of layers in our community and exceeded preset security ranges on key routers which couldn’t deal with these. This resulted in these routers disconnecting from the Optus IP Core community to guard themselves.”
