[Outages-discussion] Internet Outage Hits Time Warner Customers in southern California - now up

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com>

> Anyone want to speculate what happened here? Routing to a DHCP or TFTP
> server? Something else?

"Don't unplug your modem" is nearly always a DHCP (or provisioning) server
failure, and Road Runner is prone to those; they switched from per-cluster
to regional DHCP in Tampa Bay about 7-8 years ago... and promptly had *three*
wide-area DHCP failures in about 18 months.

I'm amazed which ever top-level architecture person was responsible for that
decision being taken hasn't been fired, myself; they'd *never* had a wide
area failure in this market before that, in my experience with them.

Cheers,
-- jra
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