BREAKING: Cogeco Is Suffering A Major Outage
Canadian telco Cogeco appears to be having a major outage with their Internet product. Reports started to appear on Down Detector at around 10AM EST and Cogeco has admitted to having issues on Twitter:
With people working from home and students doing remote learning, this is going to be highly disruptive to Cogeco customers. Hopefully this gets sorted quickly. I’ll keep you updated if I learn anything new on this.
UPDATE: Apparently this is some sort of DNS issue as people who change their DNS settings to something other than Cogeco’s DNS servers can get online. If you have this issue, you might try what I wrote here to see if you can get yourself online.
UPDATE #2: This appears to be resolved:
January 8, 2021 at 1:21 pm
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