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Comcast aware of nationwide outage impacting its internet, video and voice users
- leesalminen 8y agoThis sucks. Was on my way to the airport when my support team called me saying the app was down. But Pingdom didn’t alert me! Lots of users still having issues. Trace route indicates a Telia interchange in ATL is causing the issue, at least for me.
- theandrewbailey 8y agoI went home during lunch and am working from home this afternoon after the office went down, but it's not only Comcast having issues. Level3: http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/ http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/ Verizon: http://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/ http://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/ Spectrum: http://downdetector.com/status/spectrum/map/ http://downdetector.com/status/spectrum/map/ ATT: http://downdetector.com/status/att/map/ http://downdetector.com/status/att/map/ My tinfoil hat says this is a state sponsored cyberattack, but this will probably come down to a scrub fat-fingering a config somewhere.
- davesque 8y agoI feel like a state sponsored attack would coincide with some major event in the US. Is anyone aware of anything going on right now that fits that description?
- mattj1 8y agoPractice for the midterms?
- davesque 8y agoExcellent point.
- abhiminator 8y agoWonder how taking down network would affect the outcome of the midterms -- inducing chaos? sure; favoring one party than the other, not so sure.
- crygin 8y agoReducing overall turnout is very specific-party-favoring in the US.
- theandrewbailey 8y agoThere is a trade war going on.
- SpaceManNabs 8y agoSeems to be related to a third-party fiber cut. All the other ISPs are hit too.
- lettucehead 8y agothat's rumor https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8uukck/comcast_level_3_issues_east_cost_midwest/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8uukck/comcast_le... this guy agrees and he's on a bridge
- SpaceManNabs 8y agoL3 Fiber cut is the rumour
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- autotune 8y agoWebpass looking fine, another reason I'm glad for not switching to Comcast despite potentially greater speeds.
- walrus01 8y agonever attribute to malice that which can be explained by one drunk idiot with a backhoe. It's possible that several underlying carriers who actually own the dark (such as Zayo) have had the unfortunate conjunction of two cuts in two places, severing a great deal of diversity at the same time.
- walrus01 8y agoBest current info is as follows: There is a fiber cut somewhere between NYC and Chicago. At the same time there is also a fiber cut between Ashburn, VA, and locations in South Carolina. The cut is somewhere in NC. Copy and paste from Level3 notification system: "* CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 29-Jun-2018 15:13:37 GMT From CASE: 14815828 - Event Field Operations dispatched to the estimated failure location and upon arrival was advised by local law enforcement there was a truck that struck a utility pole, which then fell across the street and struck another pole, which then tore down the aerial fiber lines. In addition to the fiber lines being down, live power lines are down as well. OSP will be dispatching a fiber repair and construction crew to the site; however, until the local utility company has completed their repairs and deemed the area safe, fiber repairs cannot begin. * CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 29-Jun-2018 19:21:05 GMT From CASE: 14815828 - Event The OSP has contacted the personnel transporting the replacement fiber, and they advised they remain en route, and on schedule for their ETA of 20:15 GMT. The next update will be provided upon their arrival, or as new information becomes available.
- bduerst 8y agoExperiencing it here. Seems like a DNS routing issue, as some website work while others don't. Mobile hotspot is working just fine for all websites.
- theandrewbailey 8y agoI happened to have a SSH session open all morning to my basement server, and I was getting things through SOCKS just fine, while everything else was reporting connectivity issues.