August 2023 - 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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Dedipath hosting shutting down
by Paul M - outages 31 Aug '23

31 Aug '23

I'm fairly sure anyone who's a customer will have received emails from them, but there may be others who've relying on VMs or DNS set up by someone else and haven't seen the emails. "We will are writing to you regarding your service at DediPath. With a heavy heart we must announce that DediPath will be discontinuing operations effective 8/31/23. Please migrate your data and take backups as soon as possible. " Here's more details from a later messages https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=70b52fc85fa8008ae04a181ce&id=0343991c33

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Microsoft Teams outage?
by Pete Eisengrein 30 Aug '23

30 Aug '23

We are experiencing an issue with Microsoft this morning, where they initially connect but when we send a re-INVITE, Microsoft responds with a 100 Trying but then never updates the session and the call is left with dead air and eventually the caller hangs up. Waiting on Microsoft support..... Thanks

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Spectrum (and possibly AT&T and VZW) outage in Dane County WI
by Jeremy Charles 24 Aug '23

24 Aug '23

At about 11:20pm central time, we lost certain Charter/Spectrum fiber services at our corporate campus in Verona WI. The two fiber circuits that went down are used as backhaul for Verizon and AT&T from our in-house cellular system (I don't have any visibility in to the sizes or where they go). Other fiber services that we have with Spectrum, including Internet and SIP, are still up. I just received an update from Spectrum stating that they have engaged Spectrum Construction to locate a possible fiber cut. I'm also receiving anecdotal reports from coworkers of coinciding problems with: * Verizon and AT&T cell phone services in the area surrounding but outside of our corporate campus * Spectrum home Internet outages, including in neighboring Mount Horeb, WI If you've got any intel or accompanying observations, I'd be interested in hearing from you either directly or via outages-discuss. === Jeremy Charles Epic's Computer and Technology Services Division jcharles(a)epic.com<mailto:jcharles@epic.com> 608-271-9000

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Charter/Spectrum - Southeast Wisconsin
by Brett Diedrich 23 Aug '23

23 Aug '23

Hearing about various cable/internet users with service currently hard down in Waukesha county. Anyone know anything? ________________________________ Milliman values and protects your personal information. You can find information on how we use your personal information and how to exercise your rights here<https://us.milliman.com/en/global-privacy-policy>.

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Verizon DIA Outage - Pennsylvania
by Matt Hoppes 22 Aug '23

22 Aug '23

Does anyone here have any insight as to what "major" outage is going on with the Verizon fiber network? I'm not sure how wide spread it is. We are in central PA and have DIA circuits down. Verizon has simply said it's part of a larger "major outage" but be have not been able to get any more information or any kind of estimated time frames to restoration.

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Calling Verizon Wireless in Oregon
by Jeff Shultz 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

Is anyone else having issues calling Verizon Wireless customers in the Salem, Oregon area right now? Trying to determine if this is related to a big ISUP issue I'm apparently having with CenturyLink right now or not. -- Jeff Shultz Central Office Technician SCTC (503) 769-2125 -- Like us on Social Media for News, Promotions, and other information!! <https://www.facebook.com/SCTCWEB/> <https://www.instagram.com/sctc_sctc/> <https://www.yelp.com/biz/sctc-stayton-3> <https://www.youtube.com/c/sctcvideos> _**** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ****_

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Apple iCloud Private Relay issues?
by Daniel Marks 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

We're seeing an uptick of users reporting issues around iCloud Private Relay over the past 2 hours in the Detroit-Chicago area. Anyone else seeing anything? We directly peer with Apple in Detroit (AS398351) but we also have reports from users on Comcast (AS7922). -- Daniel Marks DevOps Engineer May Mobility, Inc

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flapping issues reaching East Coast AWS
by William Kern 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

We have seen flapping all morning reaching our AWS East Coast servers from our Thousand Oaks location. They drop off for a minute or so and then come back. It seems to occur at 3-5 minute intervals for several cycles, then everything is fine for 30 minutes or so. Then the alarms start to come in again so wash rinse and repeat. The issue is definately not local, as our local monitoring to our peer connections are fine as are our connections to AWS WestCoast servers. The only complaint I got so far was from a customer on the East cost trying to VPN to a server here and getting booted out a lot. Traceroutes imply there may be an issue with Frontier as the few times I have caught the problem while logged into the remote East Coast server the path outbound from AWS East goes to Dallas and then seems to have issue reaching Los Angeles. I also show those traceroute pages moving around a bit between those locations. The connection from here to the the East Cost show weirdness involving Charter so maybe the issue is on the reverse trip. this is pretty typical. 8 lag-401.dllstx976iw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (66.109.5.229) 36.002 ms 36.316 ms lag-16.dllstx976iw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (66.109.6.1) 36.451 ms 9 lag-0.pr3.dfw10.netops.charter.com (66.109.5.121) 39.187 ms lag-302.pr3.dfw10.netops.charter.com (209.18.43.77) 42.279 ms 45.338 ms 10 99.83.71.242 (99.83.71.242) 35.427 ms 99.83.71.240 (99.83.71.240) 36.389 ms 99.82.176.170 (99.82.176.170) 35.339 ms 11 * 150.222.206.169 (150.222.206.169) 34.071 ms * 12 * * 15.230.48.42 (15.230.48.42) 33.717 ms Finally its not within AWS as our WestCoast servers can maintain a steady ping with the affected East Coast sites. So is anyone else seeing weirdness on cross country trips? William Kern PixelGate

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