[Outages-discussion] CenturyLink Outages this morning

[Jared Mauch]

> On Dec 28, 2018, at 12:11 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> 
> I got to tell you, reading back through that ticket, it certainly feels like the big ss7 storm from about 10 years ago. The question is, is it a bug or an attack. 
> 
> Or a test.

<tinfoil hat=on>

Given the DNS, BGP and other issues this year that have resulted in the theft of $$$, if I were a bank or an insurance company of a bank in the impacted QWEST territory I would have each ACH/WIRE/SWIFT transaction monitored and reviewed.

</tinfoil hat>

This smells like software upgrade gone wrong, or someone plugged a cable back in to something else and made a network topology loop via their switch or something similar.

I’m not involved other than as a spectator for $dayJob.  I’ve been in the midst of some crazy stuff before, I don’t envy the people looking into this problem right now.  It’s a bad time to be finding people, and most places effectively shut down between Dec25 and Jan2.

I do feel sorry for the consumers who are stuck behind 209 without an alternative.  I feel bad for those 911 centers that had to give out their direct numbers today.

I also hope the involved vendor(s) and their customer solve the problem soon.  It seems to be intermittent as they troubleshoot more things based on the systems at $dayJob.  It’s certainly driving above average call volume.

- Jared