[Outages-discussion] [outages] TWC outage

[Joe Abley]

On 27 Aug 2014, at 9:37, Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Mitch Patterson <mitpatterson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure how much I buy that. Must have been major routine maitiance to have
>> that wide of an affect
> 
> Not necessarily -- screwing things up royally from a single device is
> not impossible / hard.

Do we know that this was a network issue?

It's not so long ago that network-wide failures at Telstra in Australia and Rogers in Canada made the evening news, and in those cases the problem was entirely with DNS resolver infrastructure, not network.


Joe