Seems to be caused by third party fiber cut
Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US
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#12Been ongoing for us for almost an hour - was surprised to see it not posted here. We cannot reach any of our US-East AWS resources at the moment. Getting about a 50% success rate on other sites - Facebook (& Co.) pages load but no media displays.
Posted ~30 minutes ago, here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17426058
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#13Coworker in Colorado can connect to slack but certain websites fail. Weird.
Confirming from S.Florida. I can get to some/most of my AWS workspaces and GCE instances, but not to wikipedia.org... unless I turn on my VPN in which cases they block some traffic or make me go through JS verification, but then at least wikipedia works. :-(
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#15I'm on Comcast and cannot get to Twitter and a few other places... But Netflix and YouTube work just fine. I wonder why I can get to some stuff but not others...
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#16Well, we all know they’ll learn to do better because of this: they’ll take all that money from monthly fees and make sure to improve quality of service! Right?
Nope. They’ll probably raise prices if anything, and receive no ill effects as a company for basically failing to provide what they happily accept money for. (Buried somewhere in an “update” to Terms of Service, they probably pardon themselves from exactly this type of outage.)
There ought to be strict laws around long service outages, resulting in automatic multiple months of free service, etc. as a deterrent for allowing things to just collapse for hours at a time. This isn’t just Internet anymore; entire businesses can be affected for example.
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#17On Comcast here in the bay area. Some sites are fine. Some are just gone. Luckily, my corp VPN endpoint is accessible, and if I VPN out, I can get to everything again.
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#18Coworker in Colorado can connect to slack but certain websites fail. Weird.
Confirming from S.Florida. I can get to some/most of my AWS workspaces and GCE instances, but not to wikipedia.org... unless I turn on my VPN in which cases they block some traffic or make me go through JS verification, but then at least wikipedia works. :-(
Is your VPN IPSec or SSL or other?
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#19I know that other commenters are being flippant, but could this legitimately be them testing their throttling ability for specific types of traffic?
No.
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#20On Comcast here in the bay area. Some sites are fine. Some are just gone. Luckily, my corp VPN endpoint is accessible, and if I VPN out, I can get to everything again.
This leads me to believe they are testing to see what they can get away with for fastlane access.