Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea... - Major outage in the Bay Area (AKA internet and phone fail)

Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea... - Major outage in the Bay Area (AKA internet and phone fail)

Alejandra (Lady Baroness of Xternetsa)

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Major outage in the Bay Area (AKA internet and phone fail)

[Apr. 9th, 2009|01:40 pm]

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As of this morning: There is a major telecommunications outage in the Bay Area of CA: Thousands of people and businesses in parts of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties are without telephone service, both landline and cellular, because of a cut fiber-optic cable, officials said.

No idea when it will be restored (hopefully soon?), but I do know that the following things are down in my (and possibly your) world:

My website and email (and several stragglers who have mail on my domain)
All sites and email hosted on our private server, includes but not limited to --
The GimpGirl Community (website/email)
The Peace of Heart Choir (website)
Nick's Crusade (website/email)
Other stuff I'm not remembering
Tons of other sites and servers and people that have nothing to do with me

So, let's see how long it takes to un-screw things. I'm also at superaleja @ gmail, in the meantime.

EDIT: So things have been mostly resolved, or at least working again after 12+ hours of downtime, and the original news link above has been updated to reflect the fact that the outage was caused by sabotage -- exciting! Some moron cutting wires, which may or may not have something to do with a labor dispute involving the telcos. Hopefully someone gets caught and punished.

Link

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