[dodger]

Seems to be an intermittent outage Australia wide, started yesterday.

[futurism]

not limited to residential customers
our corporate connections were all down for an hour or so just now
couldnt authenticate credit cards, vpn's to offshore erp's down etc.

[dodger]

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1871831

[CortinaD]

Our MPLS Telstra fibre and bdsl services all remained up. It was only our adsl backup services that went down.

[AshSimmonds]

From our manager at the office:

It was rumoured, and now confirmed, that it was in fact Dodo Internet (via Optus) that had advertised a stack of new routes to a Telstra BGP router, which effectively said that Dodo was the rest of the internet, and the Telstra router accepted them. So, any traffic destined to go overseas, was in fact effectively being routed back towards Dodo. This meant that Telstra lost the ability to communicate data overseas, the local network became saturated with data and became unstable, and anyone using Telstra for international capacity suddenly stopped working.

[dodger]

From our manager at the office:

Translation = porn interuptus.