October 2021 - Outages - Outages Lists

Apparently Equifax is down for consumers and businesses.
by Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal) 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

I was ordering fiber optic internet from Frontier Communications—my doctor said I should consume more fiber—but their system said my credit check failed and was demanding an equipment deposit. I pushed back. They ran it three times. Then they got word in a group chat that Equifax’s consumer and business portals are down, so they can’t process any credit checks. Woe be unto you if you work in finance or support a business that depends on this service. I hope they didn’t have another breach. Maybe they will need a tiny excavator to dig them out of this mess like that freighter stuck in the Suez canal<https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/mcw8og/new_pictures_f…> for the last two days... Cheers, Brad

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VF UK
by Matthew Jessop 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Anyone have any details about the issues Vodafone UK are having with their services Kind Regards Matt

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issues in toronto, ca?
by jd 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Anybody seeing issues in Toronto, ? downtime websites are saying there are issues there with rogers, bell.. but is there a bigger issue that anyone is aware of ? thanks

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YouTube to force 2FA for monetized accounts next month - Gmail
by Jay R. Ashworth 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

Or something very close to that. https://9to5google.com/2021/08/24/youtube-2-step-verification-requirement Directly, that's not necessarily a big thing, but if you have a gmail account associated with the YT account -- as they forced some years back -- and you've forgotten about that, devices may not be able to send or receive email through that account anymore either, and it's not clear whether you can turn 2FA back off for such accounts, or de-associate them from the YT account. I know this will break things as I had a client turn on 2FA for an account a few months back, and their copier stopped being able to mail scans to people. A low-impact problem... unless you have it. And can't figure out why. Replies to -discuss, as usual. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra(a)baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274

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GPSd bug may cause auth failures next week (10/24/2021)
by Jay R. Ashworth 18 Oct '21

18 Oct '21

A bug in the GPS Week Rollover code of GPSd, which apparently isn't quite as tight as ESR thinks it is, may cause GPD steered clocks and infrastructre to report incorrect date-data starting on or about 10-24-2021 (presumably) UTC, and this may bubble up into authentication and security protocols (including SSL) since they tend to depend on everyone having the same clock these days. Write a post it note with that date on top, and put it on your cubicle wall, so that if things get hincky that day, you remember why. Or, y'know, whatever internal dissemination protocol your organization utilizes. :-) Replies to -discuss, please. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Keeping+Track+of+Time+Network+Time+Protoc… https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/ Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra(a)baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274

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OVH down?
by Jonathan Sélea 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

I suddenly lost contact with the OVH datacenters. Does anyone have the same problem? Jonathan Sélea

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Let's Encrypt certificate issuance outage
by Sadiq Saif 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Let's Encrypt's certificate issuance service is currently down: https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/6164b… -- Sadiq Saif https://sadiqsaif.com

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Re: [outages] SSL rollover - Let's Encrypt etc
by James Lawrie 10 Oct '21

10 Oct '21

It’s worth noting as well that this affects openssl 1.0.1 even if they have the new root cert. So curl on Debian 8, Debian 9, OSX 10.14.6 etc. will report SSL certificate expired. Browsers there will work, but APIs might fail. I wrote about it a little here with a (per-server) workaround: https://silvermou.se/letsencrypt-60-ssl-certificate-problem-certificate-has… > On 10 Oct 2021, at 16:52, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages wrote: > >> I meant to post this when it happened, and I think I forgot. :-} >> >> The SSL Root cert that underlies Let's Encrypt's root expired on >> 30-Sept, >> and the new root that underlies it is not in the Root Certificate >> Package of >> some still pretty widely deployed OS versions, including OS/X >> <10.12.1. >> >> Lots of people are getting their certs from Let's these days, >> including >> Wikipedia. >> >> So if you've gotten any reports from the field that people can't >> access >> {websites,your websites} it's worth looking into whether this is why. >> >> Tier 2/3 detail: >> https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-old-root-expiration/ >> >> Cheers, >> -- jra >> >> Replies, as always, to -discuss >> >> -- >> Jay R. Ashworth Baylink >> jra(a)baylink.com >> Designer The Things I Think >> RFC 2100 >> Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land >> Rover DII >> St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 >> 647 1274 >> _______________________________________________ >> Outages mailing list >> Outages(a)outages.org >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

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SSL rollover - Let's Encrypt etc
by Jay R. Ashworth 10 Oct '21

10 Oct '21

I meant to post this when it happened, and I think I forgot. :-} The SSL Root cert that underlies Let's Encrypt's root expired on 30-Sept, and the new root that underlies it is not in the Root Certificate Package of some still pretty widely deployed OS versions, including OS/X <10.12.1. Lots of people are getting their certs from Let's these days, including Wikipedia. So if you've gotten any reports from the field that people can't access {websites,your websites} it's worth looking into whether this is why. Tier 2/3 detail: https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-old-root-expiration/ Cheers, -- jra Replies, as always, to -discuss -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra(a)baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274

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Loss of routes via Telia
by Jared Geiger 07 Oct '21

07 Oct '21

About 30 minutes ago, I lost most of my routes via Telia in Ashburn. I'm down to 81k on full transit. Opened a ticket but can't get ahold of the NOC. Anyone else seeing this? My NTT and GTT circuits are getting a spike of BGP updates currently so something seems to be happening.

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