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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2020 15:23:23 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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   Fun little outage here last night. It was only something like 5 minutes without Internet service, but when it came back, DNS took about 30 minutes to start working. My router (the one I control, not the modem/router the ISP provides) currently uses OpenDNS and Google DNS *, neither of which was passing through the ISP router at first. Eventually, queries started passing throug…
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2020 15:34:57 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     Reminded me of a situation at work several years ago. There was a small branch office about 90-120 minutes away (depending on traffic) from our local facility. Because of its size, the office had no on-site tech support. We started getting phone calls about not having any Internet service. We did some troubleshooting over the phone. It looks like it is an outage. We called th…