Vodafone outage…

[dinny_g]

Quite a bad one today. National, broadband, phone and their website.

Some of the service checking websites (downdetector) suggested it might have effected some others - O2, EE -

any non Vodafone issues??

[jamcg]

Tesco mobile aka o2, no issues teesside

[Rich B]

yep, my car play worked, but no traffic updates on my drive home. it seems to be working now though.

[DeskJockey]

We were down for two hours across all connectivity. Will move the mobiles to another network.

[scotta]

Was three affected?

[DeskJockey]

Don't think so, but it would be too early for the networks to have merged that much infrastructure yet, I think.

[Jobbo]

Ah, that explains why I briefly couldn't get Google Maps to give me directions as I left the office. It came on 30 seconds up the road so not sure if I was just lucky or the outage wasn't total.

[mik]

Outage outrage.

[Beany]

Yeah, smells like a bad BGP push, which to put it simply, is how you tell other networks what your network is.

Get it wrong, and in very basic terms, no-one - not even yourself - knows where all your shit is. And thus can't be reached, nor reach out to anything else.

Fuckin' whoops.

They are mixing their network up with 3 but I've not heard anything to confirm that'd be the cause - it equally could be someone was just having a bad morning, formatted a file wrong and pushed it without enough checks, etc.

[Simon]

I was working at Voda when they had the big network outage in 2010. It was a broadcast storm ultimately. I remember their CTO standing over a colleagues shoulder whilst he was trying to diagnose it in a comms room. The war room was chaos. Nobody had a clue. I think misconfigured spanning tree caused it all.

[jamcg]

I remember their CTO standing over a colleagues shoulder

When will high ups realise this doesn’t help anyone

[GG.]

I'm with Vodafone and their day to day network coverage also seems pretty garbage so perhaps time to change. The outage didn't seem to affect me as I think I was at work throughout the period it was down.

[Mito Man]

I’m on o2 and generally ok but if you’re in a mildly busy place it becomes unusable. It’s like they have no bandwidth. Keep thinking of changing but they genuinely seem to be the best of a bad bunch. I was in the Apple store a few days ago and the lad working there was impressed as I seemed to be the only customer he had seen that say with phone signal and that was on my ancient iphone 12.