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Once again, large swaths of the Internet in the United States were affected by a major morning network outage today [November 2]. This time, it was the Tier 1 network service provider Level 3 Communications that was at the center of the problem, which disrupted parts of the Internet's backbone. But for the moment, it does not appear that the outage was triggered by a denial of service attack or other network attack, like the attack on DNS provider Dyn on October 21.
[...] A Level 3 spokesperson confirmed that the company's networks had been restored to normal function by 1600 Greenwich Mean Time (noon US Eastern Time) but said that no other information was available yet.
The outage had no major impact on major streaming services that use Level 3, including Netflix and the HBO Go mobile application. But it did affect some customers' voice and Internet services. Level 3 suffered another brief outage a month ago, caused by a human error.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @11:29PM
CenturyLink buys L3 and L3 immediately shits the bed! Coincidence I THINK NOT!
So glad I am out of telecom. Those return to service meetings are hell.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hawkwind on Thursday November 03 2016, @11:48PM
Can anybody provide more info than Ars?
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday November 04 2016, @12:36AM
Quit trying about noon, but gotta wonder if this is why.
Yeah, I still play MW3 on my PS3. Yeah, I've got lots of newer games with multiplayer, and I still think MW3 is the best one out there. Except for the vast number of cheaters, it takes 4-5 tries to find a game without an obvious cheater in it. I'm talking invisible assholes, guys who average 7-8 kills per minute, the ones who are obviously using wall hacks and aimbots, not to mention those who actually change the map.
If I had the skillz I'd write an app that would scan PSN and, when I found a hacker, would brick their PS3. Not shut down, not remove the hack. Burn the hardware so it won't boot anymore. I hate cheaters (not hackerz, which is what they like to call themselves, but cheaterz).
It was a once in a lifetime experience. Which means I'll never do it again.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday November 04 2016, @12:38AM
MW3 = Modern Warfare 3, not MechWarriors 3. I keep forgetting the other exists until I say MW3 and start a MechWarrior discussion.
It was a once in a lifetime experience. Which means I'll never do it again.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @12:46AM
Oh look it's another Call of Duty player. Please tell us how you support Our Troops, you approve of the continued existence of the Department of Homeland Security, you voted for more Terrorism, and you believe every traveler should be anally raped by TSA agents.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday November 04 2016, @12:49AM
I relax playing video games. What does that have to do with anything you mentioned?
Oh, right. You're an AC, I should ignore you.
It was a once in a lifetime experience. Which means I'll never do it again.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @01:02AM
Call of Duty is a terrorism simulator and a recruitment tool, you tool. By playing terrorism simulators, you implicitly approve of the politics of the Bush Doctrine: America fucking the world for profit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @12:54AM
The outage had no major impact on major streaming services that use Level 3, including Netflix and the HBO Go mobile application.
Gotta keep the Circuses running! Keep the Circuses running to distract the Lowly Proles away from the lack of Jobs!!! Jobs what pay money to buy Bread!!! I passed a Bread line on my way to the Circus today!!!!!!!! Still no Jobs!!!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @01:03AM
The Woz is still with us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @01:06AM
Burrell Smith! Burrell Smith!!!!! Bbbbbbbburrell Smith!!!!!!!
**lobs rocks**
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @01:32AM
Steve Jobs [wikipedia.org]
Steve Wozniak [wikipedia.org]
Burrell Smith [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @01:37AM
Thank you, different AC.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @02:16AM
Said the Level 3 spokesperson, whose company was named after the seven-layer OSI stack.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @02:43AM
Program, do you believe in the Users?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @03:18AM
Memorize the following, repeat it during your interview, and a network engineering job will be yours.(*)
Please
Do
Not
Take
Sales
Persons
Advice
Physical
Datalink
Network
Transport
Session
Presentation
Application
(*)Must not be white. If white, give up now.
(Score: 1) by marknmel on Friday November 04 2016, @10:13AM
You forgot two layers, namely financial and political.
There, I fixed it for ya.
Jokes aside, these days at $WORK, I just send layer 8 and 9 issue directly to my $BOSS stating it's layer 8 and / or 9. He's cool and savvy and takes care of the b.s. for me. :-)
There is nothing that can't be solved with one more layer of indirection.
(Score: 1) by maggotbrain on Friday November 04 2016, @06:06AM
I've always referred to issues residing in Layer 8 as being political in nature. Layer 9 is the religious layer from which no hard data will resolve an issue.