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2010.08.17 City of Mount Vernon and Seattle IX had network issues today
posted by admin on 08/17/10

There were some problems with both the City of Mount Vernon (Skagit public fiber system) and the Seattle Internet Exchange today for about one hour - between approximately 1:45PM and 2:45PM.  We presume the problems were related, but as of this time have no other information other than that they knew there were issues and got them corrected.

The outage apparently impacted pretty much everything on the Skagit public fiber system and also caused some disruptions (primarily in terms of slowdowns) for some OpenAccess DSL customers.

If and when we get any additional information about what happened, we will post an update here.

2010.08.23 It appears that the two issues were unrelated.  A misconfiguration (human error) at the Seattle IX caused the problems there, which were entirely separate from the issues in Mount Vernon which we are unclear about the cause of, other than it was either a fiber cut or another misconfiguration.

Seattle IX Aggregatate traffic (in GMT, so 20:45GMT on graph is 1:45PM PST)
(The anamoly on the graph (where the blue line spikes up) shows the impact at the Seattle IX)
 
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