---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.2009011357060.12365@panix5.panix.com> Date: 1 Sep 2020 14:01:04 +0000 From: "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: DC looking for another area code (sorry about the late notice. I only just saw the alert) [DC Public Service Commission] DCPSC seeks public comment in 202 area code plan The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia has issued a public notice scheduling a virtual community hearing to receive comments on the Petition of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) for relief for the 202 numbering plan area code (Formal Case No. 1165). The virtual community hearing for the formal case is scheduled for September 1, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ..... To ensure that the District of Columbia has enough telephone numbers for wireline and wireless telecommunications service customers, the Commission is requested to approve an implementation schedule to transition to a second area code in the District. The new area code would be implemented six months prior to the exhaust of the 202 area code numbers as required by industry guidelines. ...... If an organization or an individual is unable to offer comments at the virtual community hearing, written statements can be submitted electronically by email or on the Commission's website by September 4, 2020. ========== rest: https://dcpsc.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=ba7d1fa4-6b38-400b-af53-a8fc682e932d -or- https://dcpsc.org/ (then down the page a bit) _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200901180105.GA24034@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 18:01:05 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: CenturyLink/Level 3 Outage: A Botched Response to a DDoS Attack? By - Ed Targett, Editor "It may have been that... the significant load that large number of BGP updates imposed on their routers made it difficult for them to login to their own interfaces" A major CenturyLink/Level 3 outage on Sunday that took down websites across the US and EU has been blamed by the carrier on an "offending flowspec announcement" -- an encoding format typically used to block malicious DDoS attacks. https://www.cbronline.com/news/centurylink-outage-flowspec -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200901175020.GA23874@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 17:50:20 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: 'IP outage' on CenturyLink network caused by Flowspec mitigation, says Cloudflare CEO Websites lost connectivity because of BGP feature By Tanwen Dawn-Hiscox An IP outage in a CenturyLink data center on Sunday (August 30, 2020) brought Cloudflare servers down, affecting a number of websites hosted in the US and Western Europe. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ip-outage-centurylink-network-caused-flowspec-mitigation-says-cloudflare-ceo/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200901180346.GA24158@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 18:03:46 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: CenturyLink's 7-Hour Outage Hamstrings Amazon, Hulu, PlayStation & Others After partial outages in the past couple of weeks, a CenturyLink IP misconfiguration wreaked havoc across the global network and knocked out multiple providers, including Cloudflare, Amazon, Reddit, Hulu and others. By Sumeet Wadhwani Internet service provider CenturyLink suffered a major outage on Sunday in the U.S. that affected widely used online services. The outage, which struck down Cloudflare, the PlayStation Network, EA, Xbox Live, Reddit, Blizzard, Steam, Amazon, Hulu, Duo Security, and others, was caused by a problem of a third-party transit provider -- CenturyLink. The problem caused HTTP 5xx class errors like HTTP 522, 502, 503, according to the status update page of Cloudflare, which took down Discord, Feedly, League of Legends among others. https://www.toolbox.com/tech/tech-general/news/centurylinks-7-hour-outage-hamstrings-amazon-hulu-playstation-others/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 02 Sep 2020