COX Internet Outage BS

[J. Oquendo]

sargon >>
Ermmm, how did you determine this?
Well I have 59 cox communications lines in 59 different cities. They

all

went down at the same time. dslreports + technical staff stated they

are

having a nation wide problem right now, their entire system is down.
So thats how I determined this.
/str0ke

Luckily for me their entire outage did not affect 5 different offices I
have using them. Outside of anything, this email seemed better suited for
NANOG than it did full disclosure. But... Since it's here now, it is
likely going to be some more DNS bs or equipment failure from my guess. I
do know Cox not too long ago did some migration over, or replaced
something that broke them one time or another. Maybe they still haven't
gotten their act together. As for major outage? I can VPN through 5
different office from work spread throughout the states without a hitch.


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[Todd Towles]

It is my understand that they are doing upgrade/migration in the central
US Area. One of my friends that has COX cable for his home business
didn't have internet for the last three days. So perhaps my problem is
local, but it may not be.

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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] COX Internet Outage BS

sargon >>
Ermmm, how did you determine this?
Well I have 59 cox communications lines in 59 different

cities. They
all

went down at the same time. dslreports + technical staff

stated they
are

having a nation wide problem right now, their entire system is down.
So thats how I determined this.
/str0ke

Luckily for me their entire outage did not affect 5 different
offices I have using them. Outside of anything, this email
seemed better suited for NANOG than it did full disclosure.
But... Since it's here now, it is likely going to be some
more DNS bs or equipment failure from my guess. I do know Cox
not too long ago did some migration over, or replaced
something that broke them one time or another. Maybe they
still haven't gotten their act together. As for major outage?
I can VPN through 5 different office from work spread
throughout the states without a hitch.
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J. Oquendo
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[John McGuire]

I have Cox in Arizona and haven't had any problems at all this week.


John McGuire

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It is my understand that they are doing upgrade/migration in the central
US Area. One of my friends that has COX cable for his home business
didn't have internet for the last three days. So perhaps my problem is
local, but it may not be.



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Post by John McGuire
I have Cox in Arizona and haven't had any problems at all this
week.
John McGuire
Todd Towles Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:08 PM To: J. Oquendo;
RE: [Full-disclosure] COX Internet Outage BS
It is my understand that they are doing upgrade/migration in the
central US Area. One of my friends that has COX cable for his home
business didn't have internet for the last three days. So perhaps
my problem is local, but it may not be.
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[James Edwards]

Not that this has anything to do with FD but COX did have
+2M customers effected by an outage today:


Via internetnews.com:
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3506886

"More than 2 million Cox Communications broadband customers lost their
connections Friday after the cable operator's Internet backbone went
down, a spokesman for the Atlanta company confirmed.

"We're still investigating the root cause of the problem," Bobby
Amirshahi, a Cox spokesman, told internetnews.com.

Amirshahi said the outage affected all of Cox's broadband customers --
both consumers and businesses.

In some markets, service was restored in 30 minutes, he said. However,
one Cox customer in Orange County, Calif., reported that his firm's
service had been dark for two hours.

Service has now been restored to all customers, Amirshahi said. The
company will gather information on what caused the problem over the next
few hours."


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[kf_lists]

Yeah, well my COX longer than yours!

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-KF

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Post by John McGuire
I have Cox in Arizona and haven't had any problems at all this
week.
John McGuire
Todd Towles Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:08 PM To: J. Oquendo;
RE: [Full-disclosure] COX Internet Outage BS
It is my understand that they are doing upgrade/migration in the
central US Area. One of my friends that has COX cable for his home
business didn't have internet for the last three days. So perhaps
my problem is local, but it may not be.
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