Time customers earlier today have experienced difficulties accessing its Internet services for several hours. The telco has since published an official statement to address the incident.
Time Internet outage was caused by DNS servers
Ookla’s Downdetector statistics for Time during the outage period.
In an official statement that was published at around 8:20 PM, the Internet Service Provider (ISP) said that the network outage happened between 5:38 PM to 7:12 PM. The downtime duration that the ISP has mentioned is generally in line with Ookla’s Downdetector platform which has recorded the most amount of downtime reports from Time Internet’s customers at around 5:59 PM.
The company revealed that the outage was caused by its Secure DNS servers that went down at 5:38 PM. Both its primary and secondary Secure DNS servers went offline at the same time which explained why the outage was quite severe.
The company then switched over to backup DNS servers as soon as they could. However, the ISP didn’t clarify why these servers were down in the first place.
Meanwhile, some customers have said that they managed to overcome the outage by using alternative DNS addresses. That being said, this method didn’t work for everyone though.
Time acknowledged its lack of communication during the outage
Time Internet Router
Interestingly enough, the company also revealed that today’s outage has affected around 40% of Time Internet’s customers. On top of that, it was also the worst downtime incident in Time Internet’s history.
In the same statement, Time has also acknowledged that the ISP was quite slow when it came to providing necessary information regarding the outage to customers. Despite the outage, there was no mention of any compensation or rebates by the company though.
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