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Old 28-04-2020, 20:11   #78
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Re: Virgin Media Outages - 27 Apr 2020

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Originally Posted by DVD Cinema View Post
I don't suppose this is something that can be flagged up or fixed automatically?
Well it was certainly flagged up. No trouble noticing this one! (Those of us working at home lost our connections too)

The network can be tolerant of some faults, but only really "expected" ones like power failures and cut fibres. Weird software behaviour is much harder to anticipate. It can sometimes be handled with watchdogs etc, but they don't tend to be seamless. (That may well be what happened in this case, given that it recovered within 10 minutes after each failure)
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