Major Vodafone web outage? [2010 08 24]

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#372147 24-Aug-2010 14:26

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

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

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

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

wow, that's pretty serious.

3G gone bung in Palmerston North too.

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#372153 24-Aug-2010 14:33

That picture really does say a thousand words :)

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#372154 24-Aug-2010 14:33

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

Access to website and 3G on my phone are back up again...

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#372159 24-Aug-2010 14:37

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

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

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

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

Yeah Vodafone seems to be back online again

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#372180 24-Aug-2010 14:47

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

Oh well, at least it was a short outage - anyone care to offer Vodafone an extedned runtime module or three?

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