Australia's Biggest Telco has nationwide outage

#1

Post by a10c » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 12:37 AM UTC

Re: Australia's Biggest Telco has nationwide outage

#2

Post by a10c » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 12:37 AM UTC

Apparently an issue with NTP across thousands of nodes.

#3

Post by ggm » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 12:43 AM UTC

Also affected MVNO using the provider.

#4

Post by ggm » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC

a10c wrote: post #2

Apparently an issue with NTP across thousands of nodes.

I wondered if "time synchronisation" was NTP backed, but actually relates to timing information in the mobile layer (2 down) not the IP stack (3 up)

#5

Post by ken_bruce » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 4:31 AM UTC

a10c wrote: post #2

Apparently an issue with NTP across thousands of nodes.

Can I ask where you got this info from? I haven't seen any info as to the cause so far, although that's not unusual I suppose.