[TriLUG] Time-Warner (Spectrum) outage tonight

Steve Burnett via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Tue Jan 2 21:10:18 EST 2018


In Raleigh, problem since 6pm as mentioned.

(random thoughts to try):

access - fine
amazon, facebook, craigslist, netflix, ebay, duckduckgo, outlook, 
apple.com, trilug.org

access - timeout fail
google, flickr, yahoo, wral.com
-- 
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, David Burton via TriLUG wrote:

> How many of y'all on Spectrum/TWC in the Triangle area are having internet
> problems?
>
> I'm in Cary, and my Spectrum/TWC internet is working fine.
>
> However, my friends in Raleigh have no internet connectivity to Google,
> Yahoo, etc.  They can get to my server, in my house, and everything works
> fine, including remote control w/ VNC, but they can't get to much of
> anything else. They can't even get to  *http://spectrum.com/support/
> <http://spectrum.com/support/>*
>
> The problem has been ongoing since before 6pm (at least 3 hours, at this
> point).
>
> Here's a tracert from Raleigh (my friends' house) to me; as you can see, it
> works fine:
>
> *C:\>tracert 98.26.64.108 <http://98.26.64.108>
>
> Tracing route to cpe-98-26-64-108.nc.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-98-26-64-108.nc.res.rr.com> [98.26.64.108]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
>  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.3.1
>  2    11 ms    16 ms    13 ms  mta-107-13-224-1.nc.rr.com
> <http://mta-107-13-224-1.nc.rr.com> [107.13.224.1]
>  3    25 ms    37 ms    42 ms  cpe-174-111-105-193.triad.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-174-111-105-193.triad.res.rr.com> [174.111.105.193]
>  4     *       15 ms    20 ms  cpe-024-025-041-000.ec.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-024-025-041-000.ec.res.rr.com> [24.25.41.0]
>  5    34 ms  1047 ms   154 ms  cpe-024-025-062-049.ec.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-024-025-062-049.ec.res.rr.com> [24.25.62.49]
>  6    15 ms    14 ms     *     cpe-174-111-102-193.triad.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-174-111-102-193.triad.res.rr.com> [174.111.102.193]
>  7    28 ms    34 ms    40 ms  cpe-98-26-64-108.nc.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-98-26-64-108.nc.res.rr.com> [98.26.64.108]
>
> Trace complete.*
>
>
> Going from my house to theirs also works fine.
>
> But here's a tracert from my friends' house to Google:
>
> *C:\>tracert www.google.com <http://www.google.com>
>
> Tracing route to www.google.com <http://www.google.com> [172.217.7.228
> <http://172.217.7.228>]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
>  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.3.1
>  2    18 ms    15 ms    15 ms  mta-107-13-224-1.nc.rr.com
> <http://mta-107-13-224-1.nc.rr.com> [107.13.224.1]
>  3    30 ms    32 ms    31 ms  cpe-174-111-105-193.triad.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-174-111-105-193.triad.res.rr.com> [174.111.105.193]
>  4    12 ms    12 ms    14 ms  cpe-024-025-041-000.ec.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-024-025-041-000.ec.res.rr.com> [24.25.41.0]
>  5    17 ms    15 ms    16 ms  24.93.67.200
>  6    22 ms    22 ms    23 ms
> bu-ether15.asbnva1611w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com
> <http://bu-ether15.asbnva1611w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com> [66.109.6.80]
>  7    22 ms    21 ms    56 ms  0.ae0.pr1.dca10.tbone.rr.com
> <http://0.ae0.pr1.dca10.tbone.rr.com> [107.14.17.200]
>  8    20 ms    19 ms    23 ms
> ix-ae-17-0.tcore2.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net
> <http://ix-ae-17-0.tcore2.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net> [216.6.87.149]
>  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.
>
> Trace complete.*
>
>
> After a modem reboot we did another one:
>
> *C:\>tracert www.google.com <http://www.google.com>
>
> Tracing route to www.google.com <http://www.google.com> [216.58.217.68
> <http://216.58.217.68>]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
>  1     3 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.3.1
>  2    15 ms    19 ms    19 ms  mta-107-13-224-1.nc.rr.com
> <http://mta-107-13-224-1.nc.rr.com> [107.13.224.1]
>  3    28 ms    32 ms    32 ms  cpe-174-111-118-177.triad.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-174-111-118-177.triad.res.rr.com> [174.111.118.177]
>  4    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  cpe-024-025-041-002.ec.res.rr.com
> <http://cpe-024-025-041-002.ec.res.rr.com> [24.25.41.2]
>  5    17 ms    33 ms    26 ms  be31.chrcnctr01r.southeast.rr.com
> <http://be31.chrcnctr01r.southeast.rr.com> [24.93.64.186]
>  6    25 ms    30 ms    31 ms
> bu-ether14.atlngamq46w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com
> <http://bu-ether14.atlngamq46w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com> [66.109.6.82]
>  7    25 ms    31 ms    24 ms
> bu-ether11.atlngamq47w-bcr01.tbone.rr.com
> <http://bu-ether11.atlngamq47w-bcr01.tbone.rr.com> [66.109.6.35]
>  8    27 ms    40 ms    24 ms  0.ae0.pr1.atl20.tbone.rr.com
> <http://0.ae0.pr1.atl20.tbone.rr.com> [107.14.17.184]
>  9    30 ms    22 ms    23 ms
> ix-ae-14-0.tcore1.A56-Atlanta.as6453.net
> <http://ix-ae-14-0.tcore1.A56-Atlanta.as6453.net> [64.86.113.37]
> 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.
>
> Trace complete.*
>
>
> I spent a lot of time on the phone with a pleasant, foreign-sounding,
> Spectrum tech support rep named "J.C."  He was very sympathetic, but all he
> could tell me is that they are working on it.
>
> I sent him those tracert logs by pasting them into a text file on my
> server, and then reading the URL over the phone to him. (The powers that be
> at Spectrum don't want their tech support reps to be able to solve
> customers' problems, so they block their tech support reps' access to email
> -- and they wonder why we all hate them so much.)
>
> Anyhow, I'm wondering: how widespread is this outage, tonight?
>
> Dave
> M: 919-244-3316
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