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Forums › One NZ (including Farmside) › Major Vodafone web outage? [2010 08 24]
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  #372147 24-Aug-2010 14:26
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Sorry to sound like a Noob but what's APE? (Auckland Pairing Exchange at a guess?)



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  #372148 24-Aug-2010 14:26
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Sky Tower evacuated

Gather there's been a fire at the Sky Tower, which is now evacuated. Araneo, Vodafone, and Kordia are off the air... probably others too, given how important the Sky Tower is.




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  #372149 24-Aug-2010 14:26
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mitchy: Alert the media!


Well, why not? It appears that every telco can have their outage and eat it too...




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#372150 24-Aug-2010 14:29
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Chippo: Confirmed. ISPs are all running on UPS at APE at the moment. It's a bit of a race to see whose batteries last the longest.

Vodafone lost.


Possibly johnr forgot to reconnect the UPSes after using them to run his own botnet?

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  #372152 24-Aug-2010 14:32
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wow, that's pretty serious.

3G gone bung in Palmerston North too.

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  #372153 24-Aug-2010 14:33
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  #372154 24-Aug-2010 14:33
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just had a bunch of online alert emails come through it seems the Vodafone DSL may be up again

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  #372155 24-Aug-2010 14:34
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Access to website and 3G on my phone are back up again...




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  #372159 24-Aug-2010 14:37
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Seems to be some issues with/at SkyCity currently. I think things may be on the way back now




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  #372167 24-Aug-2010 14:40
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There was a fire in the Transformer Room. I can still access the Vodafone Website. Quite a bit of equipment in the skytower was affected by a power outage.




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  #372169 24-Aug-2010 14:41
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It just goes to show, comparing to Telecom XT outages (why not?), that those telcos seem to have a single point of failure.

Vodafone's single point of failure seems to be their reliance in one path to Sky Tower...

It all makes it really awkward for Vodafone, who made a point of calling themselves a reliable network, doesn't it?







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  #372176 24-Aug-2010 14:44
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Hey Guys,

As a guy who works for a VF partner I can tell you that there's a major outage as we speak. VF says there's a "Nationwide Network connectivity outage affecting multiple products and services"

ETR is unknown...

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  #372178 24-Aug-2010 14:45
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Yeah Vodafone seems to be back online again




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  #372180 24-Aug-2010 14:47
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freitasm: It just goes to show, comparing to Telecom XT outages (why not?), that those telcos seem to have a single point of failure.

Vodafone's single point of failure seems to be their reliance in one path to Sky Tower...

It all makes it really awkward for Vodafone, who made a point of calling themselves a reliable network, doesn't it?





We're not quite comparing apples are we here? Data outage Vs Voice Outage?

Internal Core Network Failures (RNC's) Vs External Gateway failures which affect multiple providers?




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#372181 24-Aug-2010 14:48
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Oh well, at least it was a short outage - anyone care to offer Vodafone an extedned runtime module or three?

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