As an aside, this also has had a knock on effect of scammers upping the phishing attempts against Virgin over the last few days (had 4 now). Have put an example of my twitter feed (@kit_chrisr)
Chris On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:15 AM Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > So my understanding is that VM had a fibre break from around 13:45 until > 02:00. > > > On 28 Apr 2020, at 16:49, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does it goto the same VM pop if so could be a power outage or something? > If you can send me a BT circuit ID to [email protected] I can take a > look. > > Cheers > Neil. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 28 Apr 2020, at 16:44, Simon Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Neil. > > This is what Virgin Media implied. We can't know for certain, but we know > failover depends on BGP (we've a few hundred IPs that are supposed to > switch over), and we are still down when we try to use our backup/BT > circuit. > > Thanks, > Simon. > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 16:41, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Simon >> Are you saying your BT circuit also failed? >> >> Neil >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 28 Apr 2020, at 13:54, Simon Burke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Neil,On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 10:14, Giles Coochey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 28/04/2020 09:49, Tom Bird wrote: >>> >>> On 27/04/2020 23:43, Marek Isalski wrote: >>> >>> Good luck to the engineers at 5089, 6830, and beyond. Judging from >>> status pages extending the outage to 06:00, it sounds like they're >>> expecting to be in for a long night. >>> >>> >>> The backup link for my house is a GRE tunnel over a cable modem so I've >>> got some reasonably accurate times for the faults. >>> >>> Our path (from Sheffield) into VM's network is via Level3 in >>> Manchester, the return path always seems to be via London despite my best >>> efforts to jog it so that doesn't happen. >>> >>> I've removed some of the verbosity from these log lines as only the >>> timestamp and the up/down status are what we care about: >>> >>> <snip> >>> BGP timers 30/90. >>> >>> It's going to be some weird telco nonsense isn't it. >>> >>> Previous attempt didn't like my inline image, data over VMB Line / GRE >>> from Devon to London >>> >>> Event Start Time Event End Time Event Duration Event/State Type >>> <snip> >>> >> >> We now have a total outage on our VM circuit. Just checking if anyone is >> in the same boat currently? >> >> Attempting to failover to our BT backup circuit fails, understandably as >> the requires route changes. >> >> Thanks, >> Simon. >> >>
