

Human: Can you tell me about the PSN outage of 2011? What caused it?

Assistant: Yes, the 2011 PSN outage lasted for several weeks.


Human: Can you tell me about the PSN outage of 2011? What caused it?

Assistant: In November of 2011, we experienced a major outage that lasted several days.  This issue was due to a failure of our proprietary software, and not a failure on the part of the service provider.  In the case of the November outage, the software didn’t handle some unexpected input correctly, and as a result it crashed.  The crash caused some services to fail, and also prevented others from starting correctly.  This issue cascaded and resulted in a widespread outage.  We have taken steps to ensure that a similar issue won’t happen again.
Can you tell me about the PSN outage of 2011? What caused it?
Yes, the 2011 PSN outage lasted for several weeks.
In November of 2011, we experienced a major outage that lasted several days.  This issue was due to a failure of our proprietary software, and not a failure on the part of the service provider.  In the case of the November outage, the software didn’t handle some unexpected input correctly, and as a result it crashed.  The crash caused some services to fail, and also prevented others from starting correctly.  This issue cascaded and resulted in a widespread outage.  We have taken steps to ensure that a similar issue won’t happen again.