Telstra issues

[newton at internode.com.au (Mark Newton)]

On 03/09/2009, at 2:52 PM, Andrew Parnell wrote:

> I saw the wierest thing earlier this evening where one of our two / 
> 24 routes
> in sydney disappeared from the internet - from both our telstra and  
> verizon
> connections.  The only explanation i could come up with was that  
> Australia
> had been somehow bizarrely severed from the internet.  Anybody else  
> happen
> to also run a network in Australia who saw something strange today?

We run one which isn't connected to Telstra :-)

There are media reports this morning of major outages in Telstra's  
domestic
network.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,26021106-15306,00.html

    - mark

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