Re: Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

Sounds like either the National Driver Register or NHTSA is single-homed to Verizon, or the state DMVs each have a WAN circuit of some sort through Verizon to where the National Driver Register system physically lives. If it's the latter, it sounds like a job that could be handled much more

Re: Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

It seems to say more about fluctuating funding and IT management.I seem to recall an issue with the FAA’s NOTAM / TFR database a few weeks back, one that grounded all flights one fine morning. Wasn’t network-related, but the articles I read about the application’s architecture and fault-tolerance

Re: Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

Says a lot about the architecture of the application and redundancy. I'd love to know what the failover looks like in a worst-case scenario On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 10:51, Aaron de Bruyn via NANOG wrote: > If we have downtime, we lose revenue, customers, sleep, etc... > > If the government does

Re: Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 06:11:55AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > [...] or planned to do some reckless driving this weekend. wasn't planning to before, but surely will do so now, thanks! -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer

Re: Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

If we have downtime, we lose revenue, customers, sleep, etc... If the government does it, what are you going to do? Get your license somewhere else? -A On Sat Feb 25, 2023, 11:39 PM GMT, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 6:12 PM Sean Donelan

Re: Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 6:12 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > > Verizon network maintenance will impact access to the “National Driver > Register,” a system that motor vehicle offices around the country need to > check before handing out a license. Wait, what year is it? how is a network maintenance on