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  • was Hellstra hit by 10bit GPS week rollover bug?

    From Nomen Nescio@nobody@dizum.com to aus.computers on Thu Jul 9 03:31:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: aus.computers

    reports that some systems went back 20 years....
    GPS week counter is 10 bits, so 19.6 years
    Did Telstra NTP firmware not anticipate the 1023 - 0
    rollover, i.e. no cubicle drone was employed to check
    things like this?

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  • From Ozix@ozix@xizo.am to aus.computers on Thu Jul 9 13:45:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: aus.computers

    Nomen Nescio wrote:
    reports that some systems went back 20 years....
    GPS week counter is 10 bits, so 19.6 years
    Did Telstra NTP firmware not anticipate the 1023 - 0
    rollover, i.e. no cubicle drone was employed to check
    things like this?


    Nay, the rollover happened in 2019, so another single point of failure
    is to blame.
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