Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage
It seems that the Northeast, specifically New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, is a bit of a hotspot for Verizon's network issues. Still, Boston, Washington DC, Florida, LA, and Phoenix are all on here as well.
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In before it's confirmed to be a DNS issue.
A haiku:
It’s not DNS
There’s no way it’s DNS
It was DNS
The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.
But it doesn't have enough nature imaginary. And mt Fuji isn't refences. 0/10
Wow, 12 hours
Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year... but I'm sure that's just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting...