Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

Sat Feb 25 23:49:43 UTC 2023

If we have downtime, we lose revenue, customers, sleep, etc...

If the government does it, what are you going to do? Get your license somewhere else?

-A

On Sat Feb 25, 2023, 11:39 PM GMT, Christopher Morrow <mailto:morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 6:12 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>>
>> Verizon network maintenance will impact access to the “National Driver
>> Register,” a system that motor vehicle offices around the country need to
>> check before handing out a license.
>
> Wait, what year is it?
> how is a network maintenance on what seems like a fairly critical system going
> to cause a total outage of said system?
>
> I think we time traveled back to 1990 here...
>>
>> All 50 states and D.C. participate in the National Driver Register, a
>> database maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
>> The register contains information about drivers who have had their driving
>> privileges revoked, suspended or denied due to serious traffic violations,
>> such as driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, reckless driving
>> or excessive speeding.
>>
>>
>> The scheduled maintenance should be finished by Monday, in case you needed
>> to update your driver's license or planned to do some reckless driving
>> this weekend.
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