AT&T outage caused by software update, company says.....(So....not solar flashes? Kek )
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Huh. A software update at AT&T that also affects multiple other companies too.
EXACTLY. What a load of horse shit.
My local strip club updates its point of sale ‘software’ and now my local carwash cant get the condom dispenser to work.
All those companies are ATT subsidiaries amd run on the same phone architecture as ATT. Verizons is a different architecture. Not that their excuse is valid.
Microsoft, Google, Instagram, Facebook, and 17 other non-cellular networks all had difficulties at the exact same time. Or how about Apple, YouTube, Vimeo, and several gaming platforms going down 13 hours later when the next solar flare occurred. Not to mention the satellites that were disrupted at the exact same time
Well, they updated the software to turn off service to however many devices, and a lot of carriers use AT&T’s infrastructure so their service got updated too
As I recall, Starlink was also affected and I wouldn't think those two would be linked. And the solar flares explanation only works if everything is affected and not everything was. And are we to believe it was BOTH a solar flare and a system update coincidentally at the same time?
I just think all of this is a cover story for whatever actually happened. And perhaps we will never know what happened.
That's not true. It's Russian Roullette.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CfkDzWooI
Verizon and T-Mobile don't use AT&T infrastructure, and they were affected too.
Verizon, T-Mobile, and other services must interface with AT&T if they are to be interoperable. My phone is AT&T and I'm calling someone on Verizon. How does the signal pass from one to another? There must be "handshakes" between these separate systems in order for them to authenticate users through system ID and passwords. So, yeah, an architecture level system update could affect all these interactions. A classic Y2K-style unplanned hiccup.
Solar flare? Hogwash. Cover story? For what? Paranoid suspicion proves only that you have an overactive imagination and no substantiation. To borrow a phrase from Freud, "Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar."
It sounds like they are saying these were never fully out, but so many people couldn't reach ATT customers they claimed they down too
Interesting to see more on that.
As far as I know ATT never claimed a solar flare was the problem that came from other people
I never had a problem with my Verizon and a person I was with didn’t have a problem with T Mobile. In our area it seemed to only be AT&T
A software failure that impacted the DOCSIS internet protocol software could possibly (likely) do that. I do not know if that is what happened here. But, just for the sake of discussion, nearly all internet traffic in the "main data infrastructure pipelines," (so-to-speak) is controlled by software that is shared amongst numerous telcom companies.
This
Weird how their "update" coincides with yesterday's 5 year Q Delta and Elon's comms "test".
..and at the same time (4am) the MSM get's their talking points.
Ha ha! Very good point!
Let's see...the nation's leading telecommunication company has a hiccup, fixes it within hours, and sends press releases to all the major new agencies. What exactly is so astounding about that?
Real weird...🤐😎
Yup can't make this shit up
When the story is never straight, the story is never true.
Clever saying, but how do you prove it is remotely true? On this board, among ignorant minds, something that is straight can be considered "un-straight" by those who don't understand, or those who don't believe that anyone tells the truth.
I have been vocally critical of certain aspects, but we keep the story straight. Sure, some people might try to do some very special gymnastics to try and make a story fit, but no one is out there saying clothes are blue when they're actually red.
What I am addressing is the tendency for people to react by declaring something "un-straight" when it is straight. They are not saying "clothes are blue." They are saying, "nah, clothes are not red."
Article... https://archive.is/9mxCM
Yesterday we didn't know that there was a software update. But today... today we know the cause. It was our planned software update. Woopsie! -- AT&T
Dry that one out you can fertilize the lawn.
Wouldn’t you think they would send out a message re. a software update? That is a load of horse shit.
Oh, you might think that. Classic backseat driving, always getting it right in retrospect. Companies like AT&T have no interest in drawing attention to internal maintenance matters. Nothing was supposed to happen, so why make a big ado about nothing? That something happened is just a "gosh, darn!" event, and they wrapped it up as quickly as they could. Give it the rest of today and no one will bother to remember it.
It is easy to see that the hardcore skeptical / condemnatory types must have no experience with large scale computer systems.
I personally have a lot of experience with large scale live system updates. It is because of that experience, and dealing with customer feedback, that I am skeptical.
Is it possible that they just didn't mention it? Sure, but why would they wait 9 hours after they had already resolved the problem to release the "systems update" statement to the press?
Prior to their statement release it was reported that they were working with the FBI as a result of the downtime. Why is the FBI involved in their software update resolution?
There is also the Elon Musk tweet and the Q Delta.
There are good reasons to think that there may be more to the story than it appears on the surface.
We all have our experiences. I have had a lot of (unpleasant) experience with a highly-centralized multiple-access data system: lots and lots of users, spread over a national geography, all working on the same database. Like a telephone system. The gnashing of teeth whenever the application went through an "update" was epic. But it was temporary.
Why should they mention it, if the problem was resolved and transparency was restored? Problem fixed, on with the show. Why would anyone wait 9 hours to vet the public statement? To let the legal staff do their job and maybe get clearance from the government. There was no urgency once the problem was solved. (Old principle: bad news must be known immediately; good news can be known soon.)
The FBI would have a plausible interest in any event that would seemingly jeopardize national levels of telecommunication. It could have been the FCC, but the FBI has become an all-purpose busy-body, especially if the event was a cyberattack. Them being interested is no more surprising than a dog sniffing at roadkill.
Elon Musk tweets what he wants and Q is in the past. So what? The thinking on this page is that there are no coincidences---which totally conflicts with physics and general experience. There is so much Rorschach blot reading going on with Elon Musk and Q posts, there is no way to prove anything objective about them.
If there was more to the story...there would be more to the story. But there isn't. Comms are back to normal after a brief interruption. I have to deal with family communication to an African nation where the electric power is subject to "load shedding" and the internet connectivity is a crap shoot. Not good for business or daily life, but people manage. We are lucky to have the system reliability that we presently enjoy. If the people of Zambia had to respond to this problem, they would be overjoyed, praising God, and catching up with delayed messages. Just because you are entertaining questions speaks only to ignorance; it doesn't mean there are "reasons."
The FBI is only interested in claiming truth as “misinformation” and tracking down those who still believe in America. They ain’t got time to investigate legitimate telecommunications failures. This is MAGA country!
You are not thinking straight. Even corrupt organizations have interests in common with the people they are supposed to serve. I made the point that the FBI might have perceived the event as a possible cyberattack, and that would authentically get their interest. As it turns out to be a system glitch, their interest should evaporate.
If the initial update did not require a shut down but, something came up so they had to do so in a hurry, maybe but, I agree, how hard is it for them to send out a quick alert before doing so. Same thing for my area last summer, internet just shut down for 11hrs in my entire area, no explanations or warning given, they came back up and just said "they have upgraded". Bunch of BS, I mean, for us home users that is one thing but, it effected stores, emergency services and all, full blackout for 11 hrs, no warnings and just a quick "updated our systems" After the fact.
Lol
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says, “there are no indications of malicious activity.” https://www.androidauthority.com/att-outage-possible-cyberattack-3418301/
Cause it was THEIR software update.
"But don't bother us further, since we are busy setting up the November voter fraud."
I doubt it was software for that length of time. If there was an issue, any good ops person would reload the latest backup. Critical systems should have multiple backups in different locations. My advice, do not load any fixes that just came out. Give it at least a few days, let someone else go thru the aggravation if there is an issue. Been there, done that!
The requirement was to implement the update. Resorting to a backup copy does not fix the problem. The problem was evidently in the realm of compatibility between AT&T and other carriers. That may have been on a case by case basis (confirming system settings, etc.). Ever had to fix software in real time? I think they did a great job, considering they were probably not anticipating this problem.
Basically dealt with firmware updates, I’ve had to update systems with complete updates as well as fixes, also have had to reload customers operating systems. Large system customers normally work on a development server before committing changes to a production server.
THIS. Software is tested in a 'Stage' lower tier environment before being authorized to go into the Production environment.
You can't "test" operational interfaces until you attempt to interoperate. Do all the testing you want, but the phone system only works when you can dial up someone and they answer.
Last Known Good is usually in memory to flip back if the new version fails.
You don't know that the "new version failed." It looks more like incompatibility at the system interface level, remediable within hours (as happened). Flipping back to the Last Known Good may not be an answer in the larger scheme of things. Boeing had to fix the problem with the 737 MAX. It couldn't just throw up their hands and fall back on the production of 737 NG models; the NG couldn't address the market that the MAX was designed to compete in.
Great analogy.
The software update probably caused the solar flashes
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Meh’ Interns
The NSA and other lettered agencies must have updated all carriers at once.
It was the solar flares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CfkDzWooI
If you believe that I have UFO to sell you
My phone did push a SW update at that time. BS, though.
Tech companies talked endlessly about 10+ years ago about having redundant systems that would take over if the main system failed. And yet we still hear about all these software failures that take big systems down.
One SW cyber tech defense is to simultaneously run multiple firmware releases, multiple OS’s (ie Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX, etc) interconnected. So an attack is limited, what affects one vulnerability can’t affect all.
Then there is this regression testing and SW Quality issue. It’s simply not that hard to do the basics