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Vodafone Internet Outage #3

From Thursday, 03-Jul-2025, starting at 23:10 (CET), internet provided by Vodafone was unavailable. The outage lasted until Friday, 04-Jul-2025, 06:40 (CET). I personally didn't notice anything until 06:00, as I was asleep.

So for seven and a half hours I had no internet and the blog went dark. Luckily, the IP address stayed the same, so I had no delay in DNS.

1. Google fonts. I had coped for Google font such that the blog ressorts to the system supplied fonts, in case outside fonts are not reachable. This problem occurs, when you read your own blog with no internet connection.

font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,"Times New Roman",ui-serif,Cambria,Times,serif;

2. JavaScript libraries. With no internet, you cannot use Datatables and Apache ECharts. So my blog posts using these, cannot be read unaffected anymore.

3. History of outages. I blogged about previous internet outages:

  1. In 2022 the Vodafone internet router was defective
  2. No internet on 08-Jan-2024
  3. Vodafone Internet Outage #2

4. Uptime monitors. The uptime monitors all diagnosed the problem.

  1. Hetrix
    • Down: Noticed at: 2025-07-03 23:10:42 (UTC+01:00)
    • Up: Noticed at: 2025-07-04 06:40:42 (UTC+01:00)
  2. BetterUptime
    • Down: Started at: 04-Jul-2025 at 12:25am CEST
    • Up: Resolved at: 04-Jul-2025 at 8:55am CEST
  3. UptimeRobot
    • Down: Incident started at 2025-07-04 00:57:02
    • Up: Resolved at 2025-07-04 06:34:05
  4. Ahrefs site audit crawl failed at Jul 4, 6:07 AM
  5. ping-failure-test every 30 minutes
Fri Jul  4 12:09:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 12:39:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 01:09:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 01:39:16 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 02:09:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 02:39:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 03:09:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 03:39:15 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 04:09:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 04:39:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 05:09:21 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 05:39:16 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 06:09:31 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 06:39:31 AM CEST 2025
Fri Jul  4 07:09:32 AM CEST 2025

Again, the Hetrix monitor is the most detailed and accurate alerter.