Ask HN: Is Apple down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by traceroute66 » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:23 PM UTC

Must be regionalised. Nothing wrong here.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#32

Post by _joel » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

oxplot wrote: post #24

donohoe wrote: post #17

You wouldn't think it if you went by this: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

A lot of system status pages are updated by humans who will verify issues before reporting them. Main reason is to avoid overly surface every minor and transitory issue to public view.

Quite easy to verify if the entire developer site is down though, non?

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#33

Post by traceroute66 » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

moepstar wrote: post #22

tshaddox wrote: post #16

Yep. Wife: My Apple Maps isn't working. Me: Hmm, it's not working for me either. They must be having server problems. You should use Google Maps for now. Wife: I can't download Google Maps either, the App Store doesn't seem to be working.

Maps, App Store, iMessage on macOS works They work on iOS as well - so it seems to be a regional thing? (Location: Germany)

I agree. Regional.

Guessing the issues are centered on North America.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#34

Post by hamaluik » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

moepstar wrote: post #22

tshaddox wrote: post #16

Yep. Wife: My Apple Maps isn't working. Me: Hmm, it's not working for me either. They must be having server problems. You should use Google Maps for now. Wife: I can't download Google Maps either, the App Store doesn't seem to be working.

Maps, App Store, iMessage on macOS works They work on iOS as well - so it seems to be a regional thing? (Location: Germany)

Maps and iMessage are working for me in Canada, but not music.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#35

Post by andremedeiros » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #14

MacRumors says Apple is down. https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/21/icloud-and-apple-servic... Big outage... is it some stupid DNS issue again?

It could be DNS. I had to disable DNSSEC for the `.apple.com` zone to even work.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#36

Post by barkingcat » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:27 PM UTC

maybe their dns expired?

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#37

Post by mariojv » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:27 PM UTC

It's a partial outage for me. I was just able to send an iMessage, but directions on Maps are not working. I live in central Texas.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#38

Post by 1023bytes » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:27 PM UTC

brown9-2 wrote: post #18

the domain name developer.apple.com resolves through a series of CNAMEs to Apple's CDN (applimg.com), which if it was down would explain other things like iMessage also being unavailable.

Yeah, for me the CNAME chain ends with apple-lr.g.aaplimg.com, which doesn't resolve to anything

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#39

Post by Twisell » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

moepstar wrote: post #22

tshaddox wrote: post #16

Yep. Wife: My Apple Maps isn't working. Me: Hmm, it's not working for me either. They must be having server problems. You should use Google Maps for now. Wife: I can't download Google Maps either, the App Store doesn't seem to be working.

Maps, App Store, iMessage on macOS works They work on iOS as well - so it seems to be a regional thing? (Location: Germany)

On my side in France apple Map only partially work. Basemap are displaying correctly but query and routing function are unreachables. "Domain name not found" (translated from french). So it could be a DNS meltdown?

Usually basemap because they are heavy are served through a separate CDN.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

#40

Post by jcims » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

I’m sure it’s happens more than I’m aware but i have to say that i can’t recall an App Store outage since i got back in the platform 3-4 years ago. Not bad!