Fat Zebra incident

91 - Host or Switch Unavailable errors affecting Westpac merchants

Resolved after 3 hours 22 minutes, affecting Gateway: Westpac & Bank of Melbourne, on September 1, 2020.

resolved Sep 01, 2020, 05:35 AM UTC

We have reached out to Westpac who advised that they were having system issues which was responsible for these transaction decline. Westpac advised that their system recovered at 12:55 and we haven’t seen any issues since.

Started
Sep 01, 2020, 02:13 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 01, 2020, 05:35 AM UTC
Duration
3h 22m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 01, 2020, 02:13 AM UTC

Affected components

Gateway: Westpac & Bank of Melbourne

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 01, 2020, 02:13 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating a problem with Westpac merchants receiving '91 - Host or Switch Unavailable' responses for all transactions.

  2. monitoring Sep 01, 2020, 02:25 AM UTC

    Transactions for Westpac merchants are now processing successfully. We will continue to monitor during the afternoon for any further problems.

  3. resolved Sep 01, 2020, 05:35 AM UTC

    We have reached out to Westpac who advised that they were having system issues which was responsible for these transaction decline. Westpac advised that their system recovered at 12:55 and we haven’t seen any issues since.

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