Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

Lots of bloviating AI-prose. Here's the original report:

https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/what-we-ve-learned-from-...

https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...

> Each decision solved the problem in front of it. Nobody was asked to look at the sum of all actions.

This is the perfect description of Telstra as a company.

Direct link to the analysis report: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...

Author needs to decide which end of the stratum stack they want as the top.

> This design from 2010 had at the top stratum 1 sources at Australia's National Measurement Institute (NMI)

> Among otherwise comparable candidates, the lower stratum carries more weight.

Is it really so that Time Division Multiplex timing in cellular networks is based on NTP time? I stopped reading after the article implied this - it doesn't sound plausible at all.

All I could think of while reading this was “has no one heard of ntptrace?”

Shout out to the Jeff Geerling video about this

It's funny, but I had the same thing happen to me once. One day, overnight, my computer decided it was 2006.

It happened twenty years ago...

;-)