I haven’t been able to cancel subscriptions lately. I filed a refund request and complaint to Apple, maybe it didn’t get through because of this?
Ask HN: Is Apple down?
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Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?
#92Yes, got a notification that Apple private relay is unavailable And another notification that it’s back online 40min later
Yeah had to close private reley because websites didn’t load.
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#93It's times like this that force us to remind ourselves how reliant we are on critical services like these. On one hand, we can celebrate (Internet snow-day!) but on the other we are forced to shop around for alternatives too. I often wondered how medieval the world would become if there was a huge sun flare ejection that breached the magnetic field and destroyed a bunch of data-centers. Think of the mess we'd be in!
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#94Definitely. Downdetector shows a bunch of reports too (e.g. https://downdetector.com/status/apple-music/ ). I noticed issues with Music and News, seems like a ton of their services are down
Downdetector has predicted about 50 of the last 3 outages, and linking to them here just makes the self-fueling cycle even worse.
They're fine for knowing that something is going on, but not great for knowing exactly what the cause is.
For example, when Facebook's services went down in October, people were reporting that AT&T and other cell carriers were down because they couldn't open the apps. As far as I know there wasn't an outage with any of the carriers that day.
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#95Yep. 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.
Can you use the web version of Google maps?
Yes. I have been doing that for quite some time.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. “Doesn’t respond for me” doesn’t imply “down for lots of people”. If you discover that foo.com doesn’t respond, it takes a while to figure out whether that’s on your system, in your network, in the city, etc. Yes, you would set up multiple hosts across the world polling that server, but that adds complexity. Maybe, those pollers decide the site is down because of a bug in your network setup, while the rest of the…
Pingdom seem to manage it. Pretty sure one of the FAANGS could to. I appreciate an obscure managed service might be a bit diffcult, but main developer site?
My response was to “Quite easy to verify if the entire developer site is down though, non?”
I never claimed it’s impossible, just that it isn’t “quite easy”, especially to check that the “entire developer site is down”. The home page may be down, with the rest being up, the home page may be up, with the rest being down, etc.
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#97gotECC?
https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-activity-solar-flares-cme-week-...
LPDDR5 in the SoC doesn’t.
Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?
#98Yep. 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.
Both Apple Maps and Google Maps work in the browser, no need for an app.
For turn by turn?
Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?
#99Yep. 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.
Same with my Apple Maps over the course of an hour this morning.
Rough order of events:
1. Not working (could not find server)
2. Not working (request timeout)
3. Restart app
4. Working
Perhaps DNS was broken for awhile and restarting the app cleared the DNS cache and forced a fresh IP lookup?
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#100nslookup > server a.ns.apple.com Default server: a.ns.apple.com Address: 2620:149:ae0::53#53 Default server: a.ns.apple.com Address: 17.253.200.1#53 > developer.apple.com Server: a.ns.apple.com Address: 2620:149:ae0::53#53 developer.apple.com canonical name = developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net. ** server can't find developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net: REFUSED Ah. So Apple's own DNS servers are redirecting developer.ap…
Works with other DNS servers. $ nslookup developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net a.ns.apple.com Server: a.ns.apple.com Address: 17.253.200.1#53 ** server can't find developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net: REFUSED $ nslookup developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net 1.1.1.1 Server: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net canonical name = world-gen.g.aaplimg.com. Name: world-gen.g.aapli…
Now also works on their authoritative DNS servers again: https://www.nslookup.io/dns-records/apple.com#authoritative