Went down probably exactly at 11pm for many users on xtra. Came back up for me about 40 mins later. Was getting message in modem log: "Disconnected because idle timeout reached". Then was getting Authentication Failed. Then was getting gateway failed. Everyone seemed to be able to reconnect around the same time. Really got me frustrated!
I think it may have been a problem with the Telecom DNS servers as Telecom's site could be reached but no external Websites, I pinged and it definitely timed out after hitting telecoms gateway!
One thing I did notice during the whole affair is that I couldn't post to this forum on my iPhone using Opera's iPhone browser. I had to use Safari. With Opera I couldn't create a new topic or post a reply to a topic that was already there.
da5id: One thing I did notice during the whole affair is that I couldn't post to this forum on my iPhone using Opera's iPhone browser. I had to use Safari. With Opera I couldn't create a new topic or post a reply to a topic that was already there.
Cause of the way opera mini works as the traffic is routed overseas
optimumtact: Was down a few seconds ago for me, looks all back to normal now. May have been a problem with either Telecoms DNS or the Pacific Cable
I have taken a look at the Telecom Broad Band Caching DNS servers for any outage or lack of reach-ability during the period there was impact and there were no issues with the system other then lower than normal traffic.
An ability to make a resolution request of our name servers does not require international connectivity, unless you are not one of our customers, then it might;)
Sure a loss of international would mean a drop in successful responses but perhaps not requests in short outage window. However or cache hit rate for the DNS is over 80% so the drop should still be smallish.
I guess in my post i didnt clarify what i saw, the drop in requests was both domestic and international queries and responses, and i saw no visible drop in international recursions. This leads me to think that the DNS requests just werent there, IE some users had dropped off the network.
If international was down that long i would have had a big hole in DNS recursions and that hole just wasnt there.
I note the sarcasm though, just hope this post is a little more clear, it is 23:10 after all.:)
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