October 2025 - Outages-discussion

What kinds of delivery times are folks seeing?
by Julian Y Koh 29 Oct '25

29 Oct '25

Hey everyone, What are people seeing as normal delivery times for messages to the main outages list? I’m regularly getting messages delivered to me up to over an hour after they’ve been sent, which kind of reduces the utility of the list as a notification service that something is up. Just as an example today, the first message from Nick that was sent at 11:27am Central did not hit our email servers until 12:53pm Central. Rob’s reply that was sent at 12:35pm did not get here until 1:29pm. Is this expected, or might something else be going on? Maybe it’s just me? Happy to provide headers and whatnot to the admins if it will help. Thanks! -- Julian Y. Koh Director, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern Information Technology 2020 Ridge Avenue #331 Evanston, IL 60208 +1-847-467-5780 Northwestern IT Web Site: https://www.it.northwestern.edu/

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Re: [Outages] AWS US-EAST-1
by Patrick W. Gilmore 23 Oct '25

23 Oct '25

On Oct 20, 2025, at 05:32, Bill Woodcock via Outages <outages(a)outages.org> wrote: > Yet another reminder not to find yourself among the Eloi outsourcing their jobs to “cloud services.” Yeah, not only do I think that ship has sailed, I also am reasonably certain this is not such a binary choice. Perhaps, like all things in network operations, we should avoid SPOFs? A single “Availability Zone” (or whatever your provider calls it) is most certainly a SPOF. One could consider a single cloud provider a SPOF. I do. Network operations - like life itself - is about tradeoffs. No one has infinite bandwidth, storage, time, money, resources, etc. Choose what you optimize for wisely. Finally one interesting side effect of the current industry and the fact “hyperscalers” exist: Customers, and bosses, are more tolerant of outages when Amazon, Google, Microsoft going down is front page news. (Showing my age - not sure that phrase means anything today?) If your service is hosted on Billy-Joe-Bob’s Bait, Tackle, and Cloud service, not so much. Which makes it that much harder to break the hold AWS has. -- TTFN, patrick

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Dedicated Server
by serversgate.com＠gmail.com 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

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Re: [Outages] Issues between GTT and AWS?
by Jay Hennigan 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

On 10/2/25 17:57, Jay Hennigan via Outages wrote: > Our customers are having issues reaching some sites on AWS. Traceroute > shows huge loss between 72.29.202.154 (GTT, AS3257) and 64.20.32.64(AWS, > AS16509). > > Looking at downdetector.com shows a big spike to multiple destinations > just now. We're not a customer of either so nobody for us to yell at. This cleared up about an hour ago. -- Jay Hennigan - jay(a)west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV

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Crown Castle Boston
by Jason Kuehl 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

Is anyone else having issues with crown Castle and the greater Boston area? Sincerely, Jason W Kuehl Cell 920-419-8983 jason.w.kuehl(a)gmail.com

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