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9 February 2012

Outback blackout

4 September 2009 JJ Robinson

The fragility of Australia’s Internet infrastructure was made apparent in September 2009 when the entire country was knocked offline for over an hour. Home, business and mobile Internet users, regardless of which Internet service provider (ISP) they used, found themselves unable to access sites outside the country on the morning of September 2. Domestic broadband forums, meanwhile, blazed abusively.

Telstra, Australia’s national telco, admitted that the outage occurred after its staff tinkered with the country’s international gateway. "It appears a planned change on the international gateways implemented earlier in the morning was the trigger,” said a spokesperson. “The change was... read more...

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