Phone Hell Blog January Archive

Packet 8 experiences DNS-related outage

01/24/09 07:52

Independent VoIP provider Packet 8 was reported to have a power outage resulting to the failure of the company's entire VoIP network. The outage is said to be DNS-related.

According to the company, Registry.com messed up all of the DNS configurations pointing to Packet 8 when it tried to renew three of its domains. More information can be found here at DSLReports.com

Link: Packet 8 Suffers DNS Related Outage - Some customers still offline due to DNS configuration screwup - dslreports.com

Cell Phone Lock Out

I have 5 phones lines on my account with Cellular One. My phone broke so I had to switch to AT&T in order to get a new one. So I did. Well I bought this phone that they said was a great phone. I do kinda like the phone but it has its issues.

Well when I went to delete something from my phone it asked me for a pass code. I put in a couple numbers and none of them worked. So I turned to the instructions booklet. The instructions booklet said the code was 9999. I put the code in and it didn't work so I tried it again to see if maybe I put it in wrong.

Read more: Cell Phone Lock Out [click]

Q&A: Hard to Disconnect Verizon Phone Line

On 07/02/08 08:30, NIicholas fallerino asked the following question:

Please tell me why it is so hard to disconnect a phone.can never get to speak to a verizon rep.

THANK YOU Nicholas Fallerino

Read more: Q&A: Hard to Disconnect Verizon Phone Line [click]

Official Unlock for the iPhone 3G

iPhone users are probably aware of the tie-up between Apple and AT&T. This agreement has forced iPhone users to subscribe to AT&T's services or resort to unofficial means to unlocking the phone, a process more commonly known as jailbreaking.

The public has clamored and it has been heard. iPhone's Development Team has created an official unlock for iPhone 3G.

Link: How to Unlock your iPhone 3G - washingtonpost.com