[78522] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage service suffers outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Mar 7 10:11:26 2005
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:10:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050307.065621.21914.65428@webmail24.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> Amidst all the hoopla w.r.t. "port blocking" their service,
> this outage couldn't have come at a worse time, methinks.
>
> The outage on Friday "left about half of its 500,000
> subscribers without phone service for about 45 minutes"
> and "... was caused by a glitch with a software upgrade
> on Thursday night."
>
> http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0503/07/tech-109316.htm
Nice story, but it doesn't explain why they had a similar looking outage
at roughly the same time the day before. Maybe it wasn't quite the "first
issue" they've ever had related to software upgrades.
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