Posted on 11/06/2017 1:39:33 PM PST by ransomnote
Video at link is 1:24 minutes in length and was uploaded around 12:50 PST. The video displays a map of regions of outages all occurring in the same place for 3 separate entities (Comcast, Spectrum, Level 3). The vlogger provided the following link for use in learning more about the outages: http://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity/map/
You can change the company viewed but the link is currently set to Comcast-Xfinity.
If you’ve ever configured networks using Unix scripts, you’ll know what can happen.
Having worked in IT for 35 years, I’m amazed that the internet is as stable as it is. They must do a lot of checking and testing on the backbones.
Apparently, this was some sort of DNS push.
How do you cut cord and still get internet?
About Comcast-— why oh why have they discontinued their Weatherscan channel 101? I cannot find a reason or a way to contact them directly. I am devastated.
Very true. It's come a long way since the days of the little ARPANET nodes we started with.
Yeah, things were going as slow as an oxen-pulled cart in a third-world country earlier today.
I actually did a viral scan of everything on my computer to make sure there wasn’t a virus slowing things down.
I was also considering that it could have been a DOS attack or Comcast was giving preferential treatment to higher-paying customers than me.
A family member emailed me late lastnight and said they were having issues sending me email. Kept getting sent back saying undeliverables which was very odd.
Not sure if it was related to this outage or just a fluke.
I had no internet issues in my neck of the woods.
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