November 2012 - Outages - Outages Lists

Syria off the net
by George Herbert 01 Dec '12

01 Dec '12

The press is reporting on Renesys' report that Syria has finally dropped all its internet connectivity earlier this morning: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/11/syria-off-the-air.shtml http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/29/web-monitor-100-… George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone

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[admin] tracker.outages.org update
by virendra rode 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

We have identified the issue on tracker to be related to high disk latency between 300 & 500ms off netapp storage. In addition to this we have noticed buffer overflow. We are still investigating to understand whether this is directed attack or simply bad timing. I apologize for any inconvenience this may caused. regards, /virendra

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[admin] Alerts Messages
by virendra rode 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Apologies for the the stream of alert notification, it appears that tracker has come under some sort of spam attack. Looking into it. regards, /virendra

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L3 fiber cut in North Carolina?
by Chris Boyd 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Hearing rumors about an L3 issue in NC. Cut occured about 4:30 EST. Any confirmation? --Chris

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Verizon Business DSL Blip?
by virendra rode 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Hi, Just received a call from one of my customer located in Cerritos, CA reporting poor network performance and intermittent DNS issue off their Verizon Business DSL connection. Just when I jumped on I noticed packet loss in both direction off VZ and in about a few minutes into troubleshooting the issue cleared up. Of btw, their secondary link to XO was ok. Did anyone notice any issue on verizon side in southern california region? Operations is calling in to follow up but just wanted to reach out to see if anyone experienced any weirdness off VZ. <head scratching> regards, /virendra

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AT&T Cellular Voice/SMS/Data Outage, Leesburg VA
by Rusty Dekema 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

I am seeing two AT&T subscribers physically located in Leesburg VA area unable to send or receive voice calls, SMS messages, and packet data. Incoming calls go direct to voicemail, outgoing calls get a "call failed" message displayed on the screen after a long delay. Both subscribers are able to register/camp on UMTS/HSPA. Their MDNs are in 734-260 and 734-323. Is anyone else seeing any trouble like this? Cheers, Rusty Sent from a mobile device.

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trans-pacific/level3 issues??
by Martin Hepworth 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all Anything going on at Level3 across the pacific at the moment? My main providers not connection from UK to Oz, traceroute drops out at SJ Level3... Other systems I have show the links going from London to Paris To Amsterdams via NTT then to Japan.. -- Martin Hepworth, CISSP Oxford, UK

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Happy ${HOLIDAY}!
by Jay Ashworth 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

On behalf of Virendra and Frank, let me take this moment to thank everyone on the Outages family of mailing lists, and wish you all (well, the 'Murricans who are celebrating today instead of last month, anyway) a warm, healthy, and happy Secure Your Parents' Wifi Day. There are, of course, no outages today, because no one is at work to break anything. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra(a)baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274

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VZN/Tampa Bay: Eatonville FL fiber cut
by Jay Ashworth 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Rodents. No further yet: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_tampa/hungry-rodents-chew-thro… Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra(a)baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274

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Re: [outages] NTP Issues Today
by George Herbert 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

crossreplying to outages list. Is anyone ELSE seeing GPS issues? This could well have been an unrelated issue on that particular PBX. If this was real, then the mother of all infrastructure attacks might be underway... One glitch on tick and tock and one malfunctioning PBX is not sufficient evidence of pattern - much less hostile activity - to induce panic, but it would perhaps be a wise time to check time-related logs? -george On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Wallace Keith <kwallace(a)pcconnection.com> wrote: > Just got paged with a pbx alarm that had 1970 as the year. By the time I logged in , it was showing 2012. Using GPS for time and date. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Andrews [mailto:marka@isc.org] > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 8:42 PM > To: Van Wolfe > Cc: nanog(a)nanog.org > Subject: Re: NTP Issues Today > > > In message <CAMeggd4cDQwhxQE_JbvpNR-PKKe9LXqA+KzJ97anHFonjwZhdQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > , Van Wolfe writes: >> Hello, >> >> Did anyone else experience issues with NTP today? We had our server >> times update to the year 2000 at around 3:30 MT, then revert back to 2012. >> >> Thanks, >> Van > > NTP should be immune from this sort of behaviour unless you did a ntpdate at the wrong moment. The clocks should have been marked as insane. > > Mark > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka(a)isc.org > > -- -george william herbert george.herbert(a)gmail.com

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