Big outage in the eircom network

Grommet

I hear that there are a few large capacity fibre links down within the eircom network at the moment. Likely to cause slow down on some DSL traffic. Not related to the issues they had yesterday evening with the DNS servers.

Just letting you all know in case you see problems with your connection speeds today - I know that they are working on getting the situation stabilised and restoring the connections.

mukki

over 50% packet loss for the last hour here in meath, seems fine now

davork

What we were seeing last night was indeed DNS server issues, but these were compounded by underlying routing issues (the dns servers couldn't reach the internet root servers so could provide IP's etc)

Subsequently we noticed that we simply couldn't reach various parts of the internet (esp the US), sites like facebook and amazon amongst others

This settled down overnight, but at work we're observing issues connecting to various government departments over the Government network... and indeed this does seem to be network related from the feedback we're getting from eircom's network people...

I'm updating what I see on twitter - search for eircom or #eircom

Rebel021

Noticed my speeds have become eratic

ednwireland

couldnt get onto ros earlier (kept timing out till i changed dns server addresses seems to be ok now (donegal town) speedtest seems to go in jumps not smoothly though.

DenMan

Thanks for the update guys. The connection was terrible in Sligo last night.

L31mr0d

speeds here at my Job on our Eircom lines have become really irratic also over the last few hours.

refusetolose

its bad here in cork too...nothing short of disgraceful tbh

davork

we were told at 12 that the routing issues had been fixed...

I was just passed the message a few minutes ago(!)

seems to reflect reality...

Grommet

davork wrote: »

we were told at 12 that the routing issues had been fixed...

I was just passed the message a few minutes ago(!)

seems to reflect reality...

My sources confirmed that the problems (and there were a few different ones going on) were all sorted out earlier this afternoon. Should be ok now.

barnicles

I nearly had a fit with the computer over it Thursday night!

Was that a DNS server problem?

Sarn

Anyone else still having problems? The connection seems to be all over the place here in Dublin. No timed out pages but there's a noticeable decrease in speed.

Sponge Bob

Thanks Grommet .

ethernet

Had no phone or broadband for about 3 hours last night. May not be related. All working fine again though.

Sierra Oscar

Sarn wrote: »

Anyone else still having problems? The connection seems to be all over the place here in Dublin. No timed out pages but there's a noticeable decrease in speed.

Im getting terrible DL speeds at the moment.

Uthur

hey would this be affecting BT customers too? my speeds are
slow as s**t today

Sierra Oscar

Uthur wrote: »

hey would this be affecting BT customers too? my speeds are
slow as s**t today

Yep I am BT.

maninaskirt

Must also affect UTV too, as my XBOX and PS3 where both giving me connection errors so I went and bought a new router, DOH! Only to see the post from Grommet...thanks Grommet as I was pulling my hair out, convinced it was my problem as no-one had posted any issues.

My speed go from 400k to 4.5Mb on the same speedtest, jumping all over the place, are you folks having the same issue?

Sierra Oscar

maninaskirt wrote: »

Must also affect UTV too, as my XBOX and PS3 where both giving me connection errors so I went and bought a new router, DOH! Only to see the post from Grommet...thanks Grommet as I was pulling my hair out, convinced it was my problem as no-one had posted any issues.

My speed go from 400k to 4.5Mb on the same speedtest, jumping all over the place, are you folks having the same issue?

I am on a 8MB connection, and my speed will no go above 1MB at the moment.

octsol

Same here 300ms to 400ms on the first hop