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Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by jandrese »

schmuckonwheels wrote: post #12

I see multiple posts here speculating on cyberattack—as opposed to "we pushed a bad configuration update which messed everything up irreparably"—you know, like it has been every other time before this. E.g., Cloudflare, Meta (who in doing so also locked themselves out of the building), and didn't some bumbling major Canadian telco knock themselves offline for like a week not too long ago?

One of these times they will be right and you will never hear the end of the time they were first to recognize the start of a cyberattack.

Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

schmuckonwheels wrote: post #12

I see multiple posts here speculating on cyberattack—as opposed to "we pushed a bad configuration update which messed everything up irreparably"—you know, like it has been every other time before this. E.g., Cloudflare, Meta (who in doing so also locked themselves out of the building), and didn't some bumbling major Canadian telco knock themselves offline for like a week not too long ago?

Verizon had issues routing calls to a provider I'm aware of yesterday, and had to make some sort of change today to fix it. I'm definitely thinking bad configuration update.

Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by CGMthrowaway »

schmuckonwheels wrote: post #12

I see multiple posts here speculating on cyberattack—as opposed to "we pushed a bad configuration update which messed everything up irreparably"—you know, like it has been every other time before this. E.g., Cloudflare, Meta (who in doing so also locked themselves out of the building), and didn't some bumbling major Canadian telco knock themselves offline for like a week not too long ago?

It's affecting every mobile carrier (ATT, TMO), not just Verizon

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Post by daveguy »

Verizon acknowledged the issue: https://xcancel.com/VerizonNews/status/2011500483072954495

https://downdetector.com/ shows verizon, tmobile, and att. BUT if you look at the magnitude of the outages for tmobile and att vs verizon it's fractions of a percent. Likely those people with tmobile and att reporting when they have trouble communicating with verizon customers.

(Note, you have to click on the providers to see absolute magnitude -- the graphs are scaled to show relative outage over time within a given provider; order of 150k verizon vs 1.5k others)

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Post by kotaKat »

I've got a Verizon Network Extender and it appears to be online - the tunnel is up back to VZW's security gateway, but all of my phones are refusing to register to it.

I did manage to roam onto an international network on the boarder near me in New York/Canada, so some bits of the core seem functional for authentication.

When I roam internationally I appear to be on Telus's 3G network (no LTE) for data and voice is falling even further back it looks like.

Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by schmuckonwheels »

embedding-shape wrote: post #13
schmuckonwheels wrote: post #12

I see multiple posts here speculating on cyberattack—as opposed to "we pushed a bad configuration update which messed everything up irreparably"—you know, like it has been every other time before this. E.g., Cloudflare, Meta (who in doing so also locked themselves out of the building), and didn't some bumbling major Canadian telco knock themselves offline for like a week not too long ago?

That's not true though, sometimes it's inexplicitly DNS too.

My money is on expired certificate.

If so, successful test.

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Post by _nickwhite »

At 2:14PM EST, Verizon said:

"Verizon engineering teams are continuing to address today's service interruptions. Our teams remain fully deployed and are focused on the issue. We understand the impact this has on your day and remain committed to resolving this as quickly as possible."

As someone responsible my whole career for uptime and network response, I really feel for the engineers, at the same time hoping my service comes back up soon. SOS

Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by syntaxing »

Recently downloaded bitchat so I can contact my family members if outages like this happen when we’re out and about. I got a few T1000 cards for meshtastic but there’s just too much friction to teach my spouse and others how and when to use it. I wish haloW was built into phones which would make long range local communication much better.
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