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Network Status Report
Current status = Green
Date & Time Problem Description Resolution/Updates
05-11-2012 Slowness on Frontier network
Many of our Frontier connections (Tigard, Beaverton, Aloha, Gresham, Hillsboro, Newberg, and other areas) are experiencing slowness due to heavy packet loss. This is affecting both DSL Only and Frontier ISP customers. Frontier is currently aware of the issue and working to resolve the problem. No estimated time when this will be resolved.
02/10/2011 - 02/10/2011 Undeliverable Email Messages
One of our customer's email account was compromised and a spammer was using our mail server to send out Spam. The issue has been resolved but some customers will receive undeliverable messages sent to their account because the Spammer used legitimate email addresses as the Reply To address.
12/12/2011 - 12/19/2011 Mail Server Blacklist UPDATE: Microsoft is now accepting email messages again from our server to the hotmail.com, live.com and msn.com domains.
Customers may not be able to send email to certain mail servers that are blocking our mail server due to black listing. One of our customer's accounts was compromised over the weekend, allowing a Spammer to login and send messages through our mail server. This caused our mail server to appear on several blacklists. The compromised account was disabled this morning and the Spammer no longer has access to the account. We have submitted requests to be removed from several blacklists and are waiting to be removed from the blacklists.
10/20/2011 5:00am - 2:00pm Frontier Outage Frontier is currently experiencing a network outage affecting all our customers on the West side of Portland. Frontier has identified a problem with their switch and are currently working to resolve the issue. There is no current estimated time of service restoration. UPDATE: Service has been restored.
7/20/2011 10:41:00 PDT - 13:30:00 PDT Frontier Outage Frontier is currently experiencing a network outage in the Hillsboro area. UPDATE: Outage has been resolved
6/01/2011 06:30:00 PDT to 07:00:00 PDT Qwest Customer Maintenance We will coordinate with Qwest to make a change to the interconnection between our network and Qwest's. Total downtime will be less than 15 minutes during this window.
5/6/11 6:30am - 7:00am Frontier scheduled maintenance We will coordinate with Frontier to make a change to the interconnection between our network and Frontier's. Total downtime will be less than 15 minutes during this window.
03/21/11 9:30a - 12:45p Frontier Frontier customers in the SW Portland Metro Area are unable to connect to the Internet. This outage is affecting all ISPs with customers using Frontier as their DSL circuit provider. Frontier is currently aware of the issue but cannot provide an ETA of when the problem will be resolved.
03/14/11 - 03/15/11 12:20p News Server UPDATE: The news service connection has been restored. Some customers are unable to connect to the news server news.dsl-only.net. We have a trouble ticket open with our news content provider to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
01/21/11 12:00am - 3:00am Maintenance Window DSL Northwest will be upgrading hardware on its core network infrastructure. This will be a service affecting maintenance that could last up to 30 minutes during the window.
1/4/2011 1:30am - 9:30am Domain Name Resolution An update to the DNS servers resulted in an unexpected configuration change. The symptoms resembled a loss of connection to the Internet as some domain names were unable to resolve. Authoritative DNS lookups were not affected.
11/11/2010 11:00pm - 11:20pm Internet Connection Our core router experienced a distributed denial service attack through on of our Internet portals. Customers experienced the inability to connect to the Internet during this period.
09/23/2010 11:00pm - 09/24/2010 1:00am Internet Connection One of our upstream providers will be performing router upgrades on Sept. 23, 11:00pm - Sept 24, 1:00am. Our network will fail over automatically to our other upstream providers but we expect brief interruptions while our routers reestablish routes.
2/19/2010 3:50PM-5:30PM Verizon Customers Verizon is having an outage in the Lake Oswego/Tigard area.
2/11/2010 9:00am-4:10pm Qwest Seattle Customers Our Seattle area customers experiencing intermittent connectivity. We are currently working with Qwest to resolve the problem.
1/07/2010 5:20am - 1:50pm Qwest Communications Downtown Portland is experiencing a power outage due to a substation fire this morning. Earlier this morning the alternate outgoing mail server lost power and was moved to a circuit on the backup generator at 8:20am. As of 11:45am, Qwest customers in the state of Washington have no connectivity. The Qwest equipment that hands-off traffic to our network is without power. We have opened trouble ticket with Qwest regarding the issue. Update: Qwest issue was resolved at 11:45am
9/15/2009 11:00am - 3:00pm Qwest Qwest is currently experiencing an outage in the Silvan Hills area. Technicians are currently working to restore service as soon as possible. UPDATE: Service restored.
5/21/2009 11:00pm Emergency Maintenance Window One of our upstream providers will be performing emergency maintenance. Our network will automatically compensate for the disruption and route traffic to our other upstream providers. However, some delay and congestion may occur.
4/16/2009 12:00am Emergency Maintenance Window We will be performing emergency system maintenance that will result in some E-mail and Web Hosting being temporarily off-line. Internet connectivity will not be affected. Service downtime is not expected to last over 1 hour during this window.
4/13/2009 8:00pm Qwest Data Network Qwest data network outage in Southwest Portland - Burlingame.
3/5/2009 11:00am Qwest Data Network Qwest data network outage in downtown Vancouver, WA. UPDATE: Problem resolved.
2/03/2009 4:30pm-5:15pm Verizon Data Network Verizon data network outage in Portland Metro Area. UPDATE: Service restored
2/20/2009 5:15pm Verizon Data Network Verizon data network outage in Aloha, Beaverton, Hillsboro. No ETR currently
02/03/2009 12:00am-6:00am Mail Server Hardware upgrade to new mail server. Email will be spooled during maintenance window and begin delivery to mail server when finished. Sending mail, webmail and downloading new messages will be unavailable during this time.
10/16/2008 1:00pm-2:30pm Qwest Outage Qwest confirmes outage in Happy Valley, OR vicinity. Update: Service restored
8/07/2008 10:30am-2:00pm Qwest Outage UPDATE: Sevice restored. Qwest DSLAM outage at Central Office located at 7980 SW Barnes Rd. DSL circuits in this area are down. Qwest is currently working on the outage.
6/09/2008 11:00am-1:10pm Email delays Due to a large number Spam, the mail delivery queue may take longer than usual to deliver a message to the intended recipient. This affects both incoming and outgoing messages. UPDATE: Email service functioning normally.
4/28/2008 8:00am-10:00pm Email delays Spam issues this morning. Mail was backed up in queue and is being delivered currently. Slowness due to CPU load on mail gateways.
4/20/2008 11:00am- Verizon Outage Verizon DSL outage in the Western part of the Portland Metro Area
03/20/2008 5:30pm - 6:30pm Switch Outage We experienced an outage with our network due to a switch problem. Initially we thought a reboot would resolve the issue. Ultimatly the switch needed to be re-programmed and thus the outage lasted longer.
02/14/08 12:00am - 3:00am Server Maintenance We will be performing system maintenance that will result in some E-mail and Web Hosting being temporarily off-line. Internet connectivity will not be affected. Service downtime is not expected to last over 1 hour during this window.
2/06/2008 5:30pm-5:40pm DSL Only Edge router froze and was restarted. Internet connectivity was down for approximately 10 minutes.
1/09/2008 4:10pm-5:45pm SW Portland Qwest DSL Qwest outage in SW Portland. Modem indicates sync but no Internet connectivity. Service restored at 5:45pm
7/22/2007 6:40am SE Portland Qwest DSL Qwest is currently working on restoring service but can not provide an estimated time to recovery.
06/13/2007 8:10pm Verizon DSL Verizon DSL outage recovered. Service restored.
06/13/2007 7:50am Verizon DSL Some Verizion DSL customers are experiencing network connectivity issues. We are working with Verizon currently to resove the issue.
Outgoing Email Currently Hotmail/MSN are blacklisting our mail server and not accepting messages. We submitted a request early this morning to MSN to have our mail server removed from their blacklist. We are hopeful MSN will soon resolve the issue. Received notification from MSN the blacklist will be lifted at 2:00am (PDT) on 6/5/2007.
05/20/2007 7:00pm - 10:30pm Qwest Outage (Seattle) All Seattle area DSL subscribers were without service on Sunday evening from 7:00pm to 10:30pm due to Hardware failure. The issue has been resolved and service was restored.
05/03/2007 11:00am - 3:00pm Qwest Outage Qwest was experiencing DSL outages in the Portland Area.
1/23/07 News Server Binary news feed service restored.
12/13/06 News Server As of 12/13/06, our upstream provider for binary news streams began filtering image content from news posts. Posts later than 12/13/06 will show text in binary messages but the images have been removed. We are exploring the possibility of new upstream providers.
12/22/06 12:00am - 4:00am Network Repairs Final repairs will be done to the fiber optic lines that were damaged in the wind storm on 12/15/05. The repairs being performed may result in a brief network outage for Qwest DSL subscribers. Down time is not expected to last more than 5 minutes.
12/15/06 Network Problems Currently we are experiencing some network problems that are the result of storm related damage to the fiber optic lines that connect Seattle to Portland. If you are a Seattle Qwest DSL subscriber all network access is affected. All other areas are expect to see some slow or unreachable websites or network destinations. This is due to the routing that is in place to compensate for the fiber optic damage.
09/21/06 12:00am - 3:00am Network Maintenance Window We will be performing routine maintenance and updates on a number of our server systems. Most clients will experience no loss of service. Some services will be unavailable for periods expected to last less than 15 minutes.
07/05/06 E-Mail Due to increased virus activity and other abuse issues in the past two days, there may be some delay in delivery of e-mail messages. We are taking measures to compensate and expect normal delivery to resume shortly.
06/03/06 10:00pm Web and E-Mail. One of our servers was a victim of a scripting and denial of service attack. We have investigated the events and made changes to try to prevent or mitigate similar attacks in the future.
05/06/06 9:00am Qwest ADSL outage. Electric Lightwave, working with Bonneville Power Company, is replacing damaged fiber cable between the Tacoma, WA Regen site and the Covington, WA regen site. This will result in loss of service for all Qwest DSL subscribers in the Seattle/Tacoma area. Service is expected to be restored by 12:30pm
01/29/06 - 01/30/06 Network instability On Sunday and early Monday morning some Portland and Seattle Qwest DSL subscribers my have experience network instability. We are currently working to identify the causing factor for this issue.
01/26/06 1:00am - 3:00am Network Maintenance Window We will be performing maintenance on the network that may result in loss of network connectivity for brief period of time. Possible down time is expected to last less than 60 minutes.
01/20/06 1:00am - 4:00am Network Maintenance Window We will be performing maintenance on the network that may result in loss of network connectivity for brief period of time. Possible down time is expected to last less than 30 minutes.
01/18/2006 12:00am Mail Server We will be preforming updates and maintenance on one of our mail servers. This maintenance window is not expected to result in any downtime.

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