Century was hit with a virus? Or on line news papers hit with a virus?
I read an update. A virus with Centurylink
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CenturyLink outage and the Emergency 911 call centers
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I read an update. A virus with Centurylink
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Papers. It's the top story on Drudge.
Century was hit with a virus? Or on line news papers hit with a virus?
I read an update. A virus with Centurylink
News paper hit with virus.
My husband works with database warehouse stuff...it's all Greek to me.
I emailed him a copy of their response. This was his reply.
Yeah kinda weird that they wouldn’t have backup cards that would kick in once the initial one failed. Envision a large datacenter with rows & rows of those giant mainframe computers you see (called racks). Each rack might have multiple cards in them daisy chained through different networks. But with that, you’re supposed to build into it a number of redundancies that kick in when one or more network card or NICs fail like that. So for them to not have that failsafe built in, somebody has some real explaining to do.
Heck, (my job) for that very reason is why we do that twice a year massive data migration from one set of datacenters to another. Not only does it test out our disaster recovery process for auditing but tests those very same types of network cards to make sure they do what they’re supposed to do. And if not, they get replaced post transition/migration in our secondary (passive) databcenters.
Did anybody have trouble getting this forum to open yesterday? The Tin Foil Hat is in full swing. This is the second prepper forum that was disabled for a day. I think somebody is testing alright.
I tried numerous times at getting on the site both yesterday and today.
I wasn't able to get into DPF in the morning,for the last 2 or 3 day's. Again today. Matter of fact.i just got into DPF for the first time today.and it's slow ..
the speed is ok on my end but each location is going to be different
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I thought you guys had banned me. I couldn't access since yesterday afternoon.
No robin.we love picking on ya to much for that
Some more network weirdness going on with AT&T as well as CenturyLink....
I don't think it's fixed because a lot of people are calling out centurylink on twitter it's not fixed, at&t cell sites are tied to centurylink so if at&t are still having issues it's centurylink causing it, it was reported yesterday some 911 centers were still having issues.
I just wonder if this network card business is just a front? Maybe it’s a cyber attack and they don’t want to say it. I think that’s why Home Land security is involved. Seems like they could have been up and running smoothly by now if it were a problem that they knew about and where the problem originated. I could be wrong because I will be the first to admit I am not tech savvy.
My son thinks that the company was trying to cut too many corners and save money for larger profits and it caught up with them. He thinks the CEO is probably scrambling to secure himself before the truth comes out, but by that time he will have applied for retirement or found another job and just walk away. This could also be a possibility.
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Bingo!
Listen, when I was an IT director, I had backups for everything, redunancy for everything, and backup redundancy for the mission critical things. I had to sneak a lot of it in under the radar because the higher ups had no frickin clue and were very tight with the purse strings. Trying to explain the concept of redundancy was futile, it was just unnecessary expenses to them. When locations would close, there would be surplus workstatations and I would turn some of them them into backup servers at no cost other than my time.
I have a couple of those ad hoc backup servers now at home (I talked them into giving them to me when I retired, since they weren't officially on the inventory) They are still going strong and the company doesn't even exist anymore. LOL
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Doc, I’m not tech savvy but have a very basic understanding. With CenturyLink being the third largest company of its type, can one network card cause a nation wide issues on the level we seen?
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Yep. Cascading failures, just like with the power grid.
I call it PISS POOR DESIGN
And that's being generous.
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Thinking about ways that things could go horribly wrong kept me awake many nights. I still have nightmares about it to this day, and I've been retired for almost three years.
I had a similar situation. I worked for computer manufacture that had to file for bankruptcy. I was the only one trained to operate the Energy Management System (E.M.S.). There were many times I needed to work over time but they were not allowed to pay overtime. I worked out a deal to get new top of the line computer components and complete system. I was one of the first people to get a 1 gigabyte hard drive. At that time they sold for $2,000. Ended up with a several great systems before they closed the doors. Sometimes it pays to be in demand. That was in my pre-management days. Once I joined management, being in demand was not a benefit.
