[kwlug-disc] Internet connection issue in Waterloo lately

[Bob Jonkman]

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But maybe someone can explain "We have modulated our cybersecurity
shield harmonics"

- --Bob.


On 2016-02-11 06:23 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> 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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