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70,000 ATT customers are without service across the US (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by TravisKelce to c/technology

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[–] Cannonhead2 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

$20 says BGP misconfig.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

It was BGP

"According to an industry source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the root of the outage appeared to be related to how cellular services hand off calls from one network to the next, a process known as peering. "

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Another 20 on DNS

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's always DNS.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. Except when it's BGP.

Edit:

It was BGP

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

[–] Cannonhead2 3 points 8 months ago

Where's my $20?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I would have also put 20 down on an expired certificate