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Users Report of Nationwide CenturyLink Internet Outage (ktvb.com)
Are you having trouble accessing your CenturyLink internet today? Well, you're not alone. From a report: Several Treasure Valley residents reached out to KTVB Thursday morning to report they had no access to their CenturyLink internet or in some cases, their phone services. Some KTVB employees experienced the outage as well. A KTVB employee who uses the internet service provider called CenturyLink customer service. The customer service associate said they are aware of the outage for the 208 area code and technicians are working on a fix. He added there were similar outages in other states across the country. Downdetector.com indicated issues began being reported a little before 2 a.m. MST.
As far as a cause, the CenturyLink representative could not comment. The associate said the outage could last anywhere from 24 to 48-hours. CenturyLink released a statement to Newsweek explaining that its network "is experiencing a disruption affecting customer services." "We know how important these services are to our customers and we are working to restore services as quickly as possible," CenturyLink's statement continued.
As far as a cause, the CenturyLink representative could not comment. The associate said the outage could last anywhere from 24 to 48-hours. CenturyLink released a statement to Newsweek explaining that its network "is experiencing a disruption affecting customer services." "We know how important these services are to our customers and we are working to restore services as quickly as possible," CenturyLink's statement continued.
Republicans posing as humans did it!
I'd post something witty, but I'm located in the effected area.
Hopefully, they'll find out who tripped over the extension cord.
Oh, as a fallback I using my "Smoke Signal" modem to post...
CAP === 'electro'
They're trying to keep everyone from selling off their stock.
I'm a Century Link customer in Oregon, no issues at all.
Per one of the better Reddit threads on this, the internal issue was pretty much the worst-case scenario for losing access to everything everywhere at once, and without alternate mechanisms for getting into places:
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
There was a lot of slowness until about noon today, when I seemed to lose access entirely.
But it turned out most of the problem was just using CenturyLink's DNS. When I switched to 8.8.8.8, everything started working again.
Obviously that's not a long-term solution, but I'm telecommuting today and tomorrow.
Fortunately, UTOPIA is coming to my area in the fall. I'm almost free from CenturyLink!
Not at all, I don't even know what that is.
And I don't care.
so here is why Cable TV is different than Telephone..
Their whole mindset is focused on entertainment - worst comes to worst, they have to credit your bill for a day's service if it was down more than 24 hrs. Someone's annual metrics will be affected.
They do not have a "safety of life" aspect to the service internalized - it never existed. Your being able to call 911 makes no difference. While the traditional landline telcos are getting pretty lame, and heading rapidly towards the entertainment model - there's hundreds of thousands of people within the company who have decades of "keep the dial tone on" thinking.
Why should you? I also called and they confirmed what this article says. Resolution in 24-48 hours
Oh the only people complaining are elderly women knitting or sewing on a couch
It is garbage =)
How did they get away from naming these phone conpanies sensible names
Utah government is impacted.
Problems from NY to Calif.
Public utilities that should be reliable... Hmmm....
Perhaps there is a busted link managed by a furlough fed DHS/IT contractor guy.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
don't worry soon to be renamed as Bell after they merge with Veri&T
A helicopter hit a power line and power outages for three square blocks caused an internet hub to come down. I guess they should take a trip out west some day and see how these more robust cable companies are managing
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/centurylink-blocks-internet-access-falsely-claims-state-law-required-it/
Republicans should stop trying to act like Democrats
centurylink.com has no DNSSEC
centurylink.com have insecure cipher suite on their mail servers : IDEA-CBC-SHA
centurylink.com does not support DKIM records
centurylink router config has no rpki for bgp so can be hijacked
they do however have a status page : https://status.ctl.io/
At least nothing important depends on connectivity. Consider it a vacation and time for some more constructive thinking.
popcorn and wine on tap. sit back and enjoy.
Some kind of network existed that did not place everything on the very end of the network.
Some kind of ring, loop, circle like shape that kept people connected when one part of the network was not networking.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I sure don't miss those days.
It's affecting parts of Montana and Colorado, which were both old MT Bell in a past life. But just landline and dsl, not cellphones.... because their cell service in those areas actually uses towers which backhaul via other companies like Charter, Comcast, Verizon, and At&t.
Could you tell the difference?
#DeleteChrome
It is a fine website. Glad I got to see it. A lot of websites have a lot less attention to detail
Our service was fine today. They had a ~6hr outage yesterday though. This is for business fiber connectivity. We BGP peer with them and another carrier though, so no actual downtime.
Their last ticket update:
Our local repair group field technician found a dirty fiber connection at the 2nd optical patch panel in the Henderson, NC central office. The field technician cleaned the dirty fiber to clear the automatic power reduction alarm. We are showing two way traffic on the higher level interface has restored. We will hold our ticket for 24 hours to ensure stability.
Slashdot now depends on Reddit for actual tech news?
Holy shit
I work on equipment that uses CenturyLink that stopped working today. I am told the issue is someone ran a backhoe which damaged their main fiber optics to their management system. CenturyLink offices have no internet to other offices, main databases are out.....
I hope that this outage cost Google, Facebook and every other billion dollar company 10 billion in lost revenue. Now they can now all go to the government and force a competitive ISP nationwide. This way we will have a choice. Since everything is CenturyLink we lost, Comcast, CableOne, Verizon, AT&T and CellularOne services. WHY??? because they all have to use CenturyLink for their connections. All these companies have no access to the Internet but to use CenturyLink. This monopoly needs to be fixed.
TDS in every. single. thread.
This might require some medication in the water supply to clear up.
Old POTS telephones had 5x9s uptime due to government regulation. Now the government is unable to impose any measure of minimum quality on the internet which also affects telephone communication through VOIP use. The reason is inflation raising the cost of having reliable services, to the point that the US is unable to afford having the infrastructure (and education and health-care) it was able to have in the past.
SS7 connectivity was/is down as well. No Long distance calling from Alaska. We lost OC3 connectivity at our interconnect in Seattle.
Holy shit.. That's a long time to get internet connectivity back up. This isn't 1990.. internet is not a trivial service anymore.. Entire industries require it for supply / distribution / ordering / etc.. etc..
Republicans should stop trying to act like Democrats
What, and turn liberal?! I don't think so!
That's not inflation - that's public policy.
Title of this story claims a nationwide outage.... actual article talks about an outage at a very specific area code in Treasure Valley.
The site linked is a local TV station that covers mainly the Treasure Valley. I don't know how you clicked on the link and read Treasure Valley but didn't read the words right next to it that said "and across the U.S.". Also, that specific area code services the entirety of the state.