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jfoutz on May 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1

It’s weird at&t is in such poor technical shape that they can’t control a single ip address, and then just use that.

This was an organization that sustained five mines of uptime for decades.

Crazy to see a fallen (or broken up) titan struggle with basic stuff. I mean, basic compared to their heyday.

fourthark on May 3, 2018 | [–]

If you look at the history, the current AT&T is actually Southern Bell. It got eaten by one of its children.

godzillabrennus on May 3, 2018 | [–]

You would be amazed at how antiquated telecom companies are. They port numbers manually in many scenarios.

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