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Sounds like it was 2 cuts, which likely means it was intentional IMHO: NY| Manhattan| Communication Failure| 30 Rockefeller Plaza (Comast)| Comcast is experien
by onewhonknocks 8y ago
Sounds like it was 2 cuts, which likely means it was intentional IMHO:
NY| Manhattan| Communication Failure| 30 Rockefeller Plaza (Comast)| Comcast is experiencing a National outage due to 2 fiber line cuts. One between NYC & Chicago, the second between Ashburn & South Carolina. customers urged NOT TO CALL 911, no ETA on a fix, police monitor
Edit: source below. Thank you dfee.
- dfee 8y agoNon Bitly link: https://twitter.com/joangralla/status/1012761031922409473?s=21 https://twitter.com/joangralla/status/1012761031922409473?s=...
- onewhonknocks 8y agoThank you. Sorry I messed up the link.
- chatmasta 8y agoLol, customers call 911 when Comcast goes down?
- simonsarris 8y agoAnd they vote, too.
- zhengyi13 8y agoIs there any other source to suggest 2 cuts rather than one?
- thebluehawk 8y ago> customers urged NOT TO CALL 911 Do people really do this? I can't even comprehend this.
- TheSoftwareGuy 8y agoI'm wondering if their 911 service is having problems as a result. If that's the case then it's more of a "try not to need 911, but if you do try to use another network"
- wilde 8y agoYes. http://komonews.com/news/offbeat/bothell-police-dont-call-911-to-tell-us-facebook-is-down http://komonews.com/news/offbeat/bothell-police-dont-call-91...
- jschwartzi 8y agoPeople call search and rescue for blisters too.
- Reedx 8y agoI had to read that a couple times to make sure I wasn't missing something. Wow. It's sad that has to be said. Do people not get fined for abusing 911 like that?
- Cyphase 8y agoI _reeeally_ want to hear those 911 calls. Please, somebody.
- walrus01 8y agoI work for an ISP and have several times seen totally coincidental dual fiber cuts, in totally different places 150+ miles apart, within the same 8-12 hour period of time, not due to any malicious activity. Just bad luck and assholes crashing trucks into power lines, railroad bridges getting washed out in floods, etc.
- drewr 8y agoWhy is it not more trivial to auto-route around those kinds of events?
- walrus01 8y agoIn many cases BGP does its job just fine at layer 3. But budgetary constraints and financial reality for the cost of really huge interconnection mean that a cut may result in a 100 Gbps PNI peering session between two ISPs filling up and flat-topping its traffic chart (very, very bad) when the traffic re-routes. One example is that as a result of today's events there was apparently major packet loss and congestion between HE and Comcast in the NYC area. Or when traffic re-routes, a major ISP will temporarily congest its own intra-AS city-to-city links on a few key paths, for their own router-to-router interfaces.
- drewr 8y agoAh, makes sense, you still need the ability to handle the rerouted traffic.
- joering2 8y agoWell precisely. And not like Comcast doesn't have money aka "But budgetary constraints and financial reality...". The reality is that they do annual surveys and find out spots on map where cutting happens very rarely and in those places they won't have any redundancy running - something, you know - the whole internet is based off of. So no, two cuts like this are not something out of ordinary. The fact Comcast is cheap and don't have redundant pipes/contracts to operate secondary backup lines is simply being cheap and saving money on their part.
- eurticket 8y agoMaybe Comcast is seeking some of that AT&T money after they were exposed for housing NSA spy tech.
- peterwwillis 8y agoCan confirm 2 cuts, L3 to blame apparently.
- tenken 8y agoIntentional ... hundreds of miles apart? .... Sounds far fetched unless you like conspiracies.