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Not sure if this has been shared yet, but apparently there was a massive outage at Time Warner last night into this morning that still has some lingering effects.

We were down from 2-3am last night until almost 6am this morning. More info here:

http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/08/time-warner-outage/379193/

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We were down from about 4:30 - 6AM. Cant wait to get our 2nd fiber line in so we can gain redundancy.

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Same for us. We just got our first fiber line - so a second isnt in our future…yet.

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Our project included 2 Fiber lines with failover becaues we are sick and tired of being at the mercy of one internet vendor and their constant outages (looking at you Windstream).

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Reading the comment on these new stories…

“Probably just the NSA installing some network upgrades…”

“…as a result, Comcast has lowered their bid to $40.2 billion”

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

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I really hope this doesn’t turn into a, “We need Comcast to bail us out because we can’t afford to keep our infrastructure going…” thing.

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Someone who got to the office at 6:30 texted me that there was no Internet. Then I heard them talking about it on the radio. My home Internet was down as well. But shortly after 7:00 it was back up, so when most people came in it was ok.

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Sounds like some network maintenance that didn’t go as planned.

Their website and phones were down too.

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I was reading about this yesterday, people said changing their DNS server to 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 for example got them back online.

Was this morning’s outage a continuing problem with just their DNS, or was it actually something more substantial?

As to phones being down, I can’t ever tell if that’s cause there is an actual outage, or just a sudden influx of callers because nothing appears to be working?

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No, it was a complete outage, I use Google’s DNS servers (the ones you listed) as default and they were unaccessible during the outage, as were Comodo’s secure DNS servers.

I actually couldn’t get much further then the ISP gateway… Maybe 1-2 hops, generally no further then my areas demark.

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Charters issue last weekend was DNS related (I use google DNS so I wasn’t affected).

TWC is being sold as a network upgrade gone wrong.