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70,000 ATT customers are without service across the US
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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$20 says BGP misconfig.
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
Another 20 on DNS
It's always DNS.
Yes. Except when it's BGP.
Edit:
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
Where's my $20?
I would have also put 20 down on an expired certificate