Prolonged outage: MyBroadband, BusinessTech, MyGaming

[LazyLion]

It's OK... I was busy watching the Game of Thrones Final episode of Season 2! .... and then I went to bed.

You're forgiven... but this time only!

 

[Beri]

Not the actual reason but the 'reason' to be supplied by PR types...

More like the thingee that works the thingemabob wat did not work. We have seen the PR at work.....lol

 

[rpm]

At 21h30 MTN Business experienced network connectivity issues that affected Hetzner customers across our Data Centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Partial services were restored shortly thereafter. However certain IP ranges were not advertised to the Internet correctly due to a technical problem. Full connectivity was restored at 01h40 with all Hetzner servers back online.

We are in discussions with MTN Business to better understand the cause of the disruption and would like to offer our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused to our customers.

 

[cjimme]

If you value uptime, MTN Business Gallo Manor Data Centre is not the right place to be.

Why Hetzner is still there I don't know. There are tons of far better equipped and designed centres around.

 

[Roadrunner]

Conspiracy theory:

The USA was so mad at MTN for going underground and bypassing the sanctions against Iran, that they decided to teach them a lesson and hit them where it hurts. It could either have been a direct attack, or attempt to break the network security to obtain information.

 

[Paul Hjul]

alternate conspiracy theory:
MTN wanted to avoid news and discussions about CellC's price drops and their embarrasing response from circulating ...

 

[koeksGHT]

/Blames someone tripping over a power cable

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Any news to this?

 

[BrendanMc]

Free t-shirts to all those affected

 

[McGuywer]

alternate conspiracy theory:
MTN wanted to avoid news and discussions about CellC's price drops and their embarrasing response from circulating ...

This sounds about right!

 

[MrGray]

Just had a brief 2 minute outage of all our sites at Hetzner - looks like MyBB was down briefly as well. Weird.

 

[rpm]

You are correct - waiting for feedback from the company.

 

[ShaunSA]

Ah so that's what it was.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

A guy I know at MTN tells a story about MTN techie who steal the backup batteries at tower locations. Power goes of, no back-up supply. No connectivity ...