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East Coast Internet Outage

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Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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Issues with FiOS in the Boston area. Traceroute seems to point to an issue originating in NY but that's just speculation. Apparently a lot of other services are down. Might be a Tier 1 or 2 ISP.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#26
My corporate laptop is affected. My roommate’s corporate laptop is totally unaffected. We’re on the same router/gateway.

Any theories out there to explain this phenomenon? Fascinating.

(My theory is a network partition, where my roommate’s IP addresses happen to be in regions that are on “our side” of the partition, whereas my IP Addresses are on the “other”, unreachable side).

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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post #26

My corporate laptop is affected. My roommate’s corporate laptop is totally unaffected. We’re on the same router/gateway. Any theories out there to explain this phenomenon? Fascinating. (My theory is a network partition, where my roommate’s IP addresses happen to be in regions that are on “our side” of the partition, whereas my IP Addresses are on the “other”, unreachable side).

Is your roommate on a VPN? It looks like Verizon is having trouble only with traffic to certain destinations (perhaps Google and AWS).

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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post #27
post #26

My corporate laptop is affected. My roommate’s corporate laptop is totally unaffected. We’re on the same router/gateway. Any theories out there to explain this phenomenon? Fascinating. (My theory is a network partition, where my roommate’s IP addresses happen to be in regions that are on “our side” of the partition, whereas my IP Addresses are on the “other”, unreachable side).

Is your roommate on a VPN? It looks like Verizon is having trouble only with traffic to certain destinations (perhaps Google and AWS).

They’re not. I’m on a split VPN, for what it’s worth. Disconnecting even from the split VPN does not help my laptop.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

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post #26

My corporate laptop is affected. My roommate’s corporate laptop is totally unaffected. We’re on the same router/gateway. Any theories out there to explain this phenomenon? Fascinating. (My theory is a network partition, where my roommate’s IP addresses happen to be in regions that are on “our side” of the partition, whereas my IP Addresses are on the “other”, unreachable side).

Are you using different DNS servers? My work laptop was using 8.8.8.8 and is getting name resolution errors, but my personal computer is using 1.1.1.1 and working fine.
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