[kwlug-disc] Internet connection issue in Waterloo lately

[Bob Jonkman]

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According to the Teksavvy report, there was a combination of issues
(DDoS plus routing problems), and a reluctance of Rogers to
address the issue because Teksavvy is their competition.

http://www.teksavvy.com/en/why-teksavvy/company/open-letter

> One event was a total backbone failure on point-to-point routes 
> outside our network. It took out separate paths and was
> responsible for at least two of the outages. This doesn’t often
> happen. But we are following up on how it did, and preventing
> recurrence.
> 
> The other event was a massive DDOS attack with a new attack
> signature we hadn’t seen before. The DDOS attack converged on a
> single end-user location, overloaded the capacity of some of our
> network gear, and challenged some of the specialized DDOS boxes and
> rulesets we have in place.


Also:
https://help.teksavvy.com/hc/en-us/articles/200313840-Current-Cable-Internet-Outages


My connectivity either blinked out or was dreadfully slow for a few
(15) minutes, but restored itself without me having to do anything.

Everything's normal here now.

- --Bob, who's normal as anything.


Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>          Phone: +1-519-635-9413
SOBAC Microcomputer Services             http://sobac.com/sobac/
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On 2016-02-11 04:12 PM, Raymond Chen wrote:
> Did anybody in Waterloo/Kitchener have Internet connection loss 
> issue lately? In my case, I couldn't reach any website for like
> 10-15 minutes until it restored itself. It happened a couple opf
> times in the last 2 weeks. I tried to tracert and found it stopped
> at the 2nd hop, in a node called 'rogers-xxx', could be different
> IP addresses each time. My provider is TekSavvy, and I have a
> friend who's using CIK is having the same issue...
> 
> 
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