Australian IT company says ‘configuration issue’ may have been behind nationwide outage
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The lengthy outage of Optus’s internet and mobile services across the country could have been caused by the same issue that brought down Facebook two years ago, experts suggest.
Cloudflare, which tracks a range of activity on the internet, noticed a spike in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements from the telco coinciding with the time Optus’s network went offline.
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