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Outage Knocks Out All Major Phone Providers On the East Coast (dailydot.com)
Every major phone carrier experience outages on United States' east coast this morning at around 11am local time. The outage lasted for about 45 minutes. DownDetector, which monitors outages of services, confirmed AT&T, Verizon, Charter Spectrum, Comcast, Sprint, Time Warner Cable, US Cellular, and Vonage among others were affected. From a DailyDot report: T-Mobile CEO John Legere tweeted about the incident, pointing to issues with Level 3, a major internet backbone. Other tech firms quickly pointed to a Level 3 outage as well. No specific information has been released on potential causes of the outage or consequences that may result from it. Business VoIP providers (Resource: https://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/VOIP+Service+Providers+Business) were unaffected as they run over internet connections.
The really should think of some sort of system of interconnected networks that is so redundant and widespread that even a nuclear war couldn't take out!
I'm on the East Coast and didn't notice any outage. Are we sure it was the entire East coast?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Looks like I'm getting 2nd post... Must have knocked a lot of slash dotters off line!
No? Well carry on..
This is when Ham Radio shines... 73's to my fellow 0.2%
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cellular, cable, voip.. can all be nixed by a single point of failure.. but not POTS. long love good old fasioned landline phone service.
Got us too. Provider was vitelity. Failover to cell didn't even work. Looks like I need to have a failover trunk provider.
Strange. Bug part of Finnish Sonera was ofline today to.. so eone having fun with them id guess.
any external calls weren't coming in. sound like they're starting to get it moving again.
"Hmm. I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers!"
Meh, (analog) ham radio is still working fine...
and what would we all do if they did this during war.. all i got is a CB in the basement in a box .. need to get me a ham
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At least it wasn't a missing semicolon at the end of a line of source code in the SS7 Signal Transfer Point. That was all it took about 25 years ago.
slashdot: A failed experiment.
testing systemd in the wild?
W9ABC this is K6XYZ, over ....
(no answer)
W9ABC this is K6XYZ, over
no answer
Dial up on cell.
"Hey, Harry, turn on your damned radio!"
"OK"
W9ABC, this is K6XYZ, over
K6XYZ this is W6ABC, I hear you 5 by 5 now!
Lesson: This is a fine example of communications redundancy ... errrr ...
They have to install the new spy software to spy on American citizens in America, now that their Yahoo email redirect has been daylighted.
The systems will be spying on you via phone lines soon.
What Al Gore actually said was "I took the initiative in creating the internet". In context his statement is true. No, he did not invent the internet. But he was the first politician to recognize that interconnecting computers could have benefits far beyond improvements in science. He realized that the network should opened up to everyone. As far back as the 1970's Gore was involved in legislation involving technology and he worked tirelessly to educate other politicians about technology. He wrote bills that funded research in robotics, magnetic leviation, biotech, image recognition, speech recognition just to name a few. He wrote the bill that funded Mosaic and also wrote the bill that essentially privatized the Internet.
If you want to know more about how Gore "invented the internet" take the initiative and find a book. It's a fascinating story.
I do not block ads. I do block third party scripts.
Hmmm. Major Internet outage reported the day after source code for enormous DDoS attacks is released.
Which systems rely on mobile networks, how long does it take for them to react, what effect does an outage have on traffic patterns, etc?
We were impacted by this at my Denver, CO office... a long way from the east coast. :)
At least I had something to blame the outage on this time
Do we know if the impacted voice was mostly or entirely VoIP, or at least routed to an IP switch (Metaswitch, Broadsoft)?
Were pure TDM switches (5ESS, DMS) affected?
of receiving emails from people telling you that they can't communicate with you.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
where's the irony? email is queued until it can be delivered (or times out).
OK networking is designed to be routable and redundant. ...
Now if all traffic must pass through a fort that used to have no signs
or a bit of Utah so hot and far from anyplace that only Octopussy could
think of
In all fairness for phones to go down because an Internet backbone failed
tells me that all our phone company laws need revision at all levels.
At one time a POT had obligations of reliability and redundancy that
seem to have flipped to a binary work or is broken.
I recall mothers day calls where you got all signals busy because of
the surge. At least the management was not Uber imposing hidden
surge pricing.
This is an opportunity for good questions at the VP thing tonight.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
Yesterday it was: Hey helpdesk guy. I can't log in to the ticketing system due to SAML failure. What's up?
Oh yeah, known issue. The details are in #SBQ2342355.
Me = headdesk.
So in other words, Al Gore funded the internet.
As I understand it, what he did was sponsor legislation to open the Internet / ARPANet, to general use, including commercial use, removing the limitations on who could connect and what they could say. Prior to that the connections and traffic had to have some connection to education, the military, or dealings with them.
So on one hand he helped give the general Internet a great boost, enabling it to become the public utility we know, love, and use.
But on the other hand he effectively legalized Spam, because going from very limited business uses to any business use is OK took away the main tool for suppressing unsolicited commercial email and network newsgroup postings.
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... these days to some company else? Gone are the days when any kind of service was provided by just one company, who was then undoubtly responsible for however good or bad a service was. Today, there is an endless chain of suppliers, sub-contractors, infrastructure providers, whom to assign blame to, so ultimately no one feels responsible, everybody has an excuse, and whatever SLA exists, it's not worth the paper it's written on.
does it every time LOL
Unless it becomes criminal to be so negligent, nothing will change.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I was having issues at 10:35am EDT
The NSA is just live-testing to make sure they can turn the internet off and on again at will - in case Snowden has more to say, or Assange spills the beans!