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Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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post #7

Looks very similar to Facebook's outage. A combination of BGP and DNS problems that started with a configuration change. https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

What evidence are you seeing that makes you think this is happening in the Rogers' case? I haven't seen any diagnostics or analysis by anyone.

Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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Interac is down because Interac uses Rogers' network. Interac's backup network also happens to be with ... Rogers. Canadians across the country can't use debit cards, regardless of their financial institution. Credit and cash only. E-transfers are unavailable. Fun for people trying to pay their bills online. And that's just the financial side of the situation. Millions of people have lost Internet and phone service.…

Its crazy that interac does not have backup independent connectivity.

Truly, and hopefully this leads to change. But this is also a consequence of Canada's lack of competition with ISPs.

Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

#14

this is quite a significant outage and has been ongoing for over six hours now. would love to see a tech write up or blog post or even a Twitter hint but there seems to be absolutely zero transparency.

> ongoing for over six hours now

Closer to 12 hours now I think. Certainly it was out at 7am EST this morning when I woke up.

Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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post #12
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its crazy that interac does not have backup independent connectivity.

Truly, and hopefully this leads to change. But this is also a consequence of Canada's lack of competition with ISPs.

To a certain extent yes. But its not like rogers literally has a monopoly. The isp i use is doing fine.

Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

#17

Interac is down because Interac uses Rogers' network. Interac's backup network also happens to be with ... Rogers. Canadians across the country can't use debit cards, regardless of their financial institution. Credit and cash only. E-transfers are unavailable. Fun for people trying to pay their bills online. And that's just the financial side of the situation. Millions of people have lost Internet and phone service.…

It's hard to believe these jamokes don't have redundant providers. It's something I roll out to even my smallest consulting client...

Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

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post #2

I was hoping there would be a discussion of this here with some inside baseball, but then HN was down.

The Cloudflare blog suggests it's BGP problems: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-view-of-the-rogers-c...

It's always BGP......

Re: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

#20
The lack of communication from Rogers for an event of this magnitude is quite something. Three tweets[0] with zero useful information so far today. The first one not coming until ~4 hours after the interruption started.

[0] https://twitter.com/rogers/

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