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Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

#71

Post by Maxion »

klysm wrote: post #14

Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. https://github.com/ fails to load. https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet https://twitter.com/githubstatus edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page https://www.githubstatus.com/ edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault

Strange stuff, as it works completely fine for me in the EU? I just posted comments to several issues.

Edit: Front page still loads and I am logged in. Everything is as normal. Status page shows everything is down. Lol.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

#73

Post by llimllib »

hn8305823 wrote: post #30

140.82.113.0/24 is visible in the global routing table: route-views>sh bgp 140.82.113.0 BGP routing table entry for 140.82.113.0/24, version 62582026 Paths: (19 available, best #4, table default) The route is verified by RPKI so it's not a route hijack. Edit: deleted traceroute

Your requests made it farther than mine - mine get to charter in nyc and die there

    6  lag-26.nycmny837aw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (24.30.201.130)  158.033 ms
       lag-16.nycmny837aw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (66.109.6.74)  29.575 ms
       lag-416.nycmny837aw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (66.109.6.10)  30.077 ms
    7  lag-1.pr2.nyc20.netops.charter.com (66.109.9.5)  81.351 ms  37.879 ms  27.877 ms
    8  * * *

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

#74

Post by ezekg »

Shekelphile wrote: post #39
stefanos82 wrote: post #15

So down right now...I wonder why they still use https://www.githubstatus.com/ that reports everything is alright when it's not!

Pretty much every company has been shown to have fake status pages at this point.

Pretty much. They want the burden of proof for SLAs to fall on the customer, not on themselves. If a customer has to prove that an outage specifically affected them, they are much less likely to have a successful case against the failure to meet their SLA.

(Not directed at GitHub specifically, but at bogus status pages.)

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

#75

Post by wongarsu »

jabart wrote: post #48
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it takes someone to manually change it from green to red, that does seem to defeat the purpose.

No it doesn't. The amount of false alarm alerts you can get with internet based monitoring is more than 0. You could have a BGP route break things for one ISP your monitoring happens to use. You could have a failover event happening where it takes 30 seconds for everything to converge. I have multiple monitors on my app at 1 minute intervals from different vendors and ALWAYS a user will email us within 5 seconds of a…

Most paid status monitoring services cover BGP route problems and ISP issues by only flagging an event if it's detected from X geographically diverse endpoints.

For the 30 seconds where you wait for failover to complete: that is a 30 second outage. It's not necessarily profitable to admit to it, but showing it as a 30 second outage would be accurate

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by lucb1e »

https://codeberg.org open source GitHub without Microsoft (it's a German non-profit). You can also host your own lightweight https://forgejo.org instance

In case anyone questions whether centralizing literally everything onto GitHub is a good idea, at least as a mirror for things you depend on

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

#78

Post by traviscj »

hn8305823 wrote: post #30

140.82.113.0/24 is visible in the global routing table: route-views>sh bgp 140.82.113.0 BGP routing table entry for 140.82.113.0/24, version 62582026 Paths: (19 available, best #4, table default) The route is verified by RPKI so it's not a route hijack. Edit: deleted traceroute

found the neteng guy

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

#79

Post by klysm »

Maxion wrote: post #71
klysm wrote: post #14

Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. https://github.com/ fails to load. https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet https://twitter.com/githubstatus edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page https://www.githubstatus.com/ edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault

Strange stuff, as it works completely fine for me in the EU? I just posted comments to several issues. Edit: Front page still loads and I am logged in. Everything is as normal. Status page shows everything is down. Lol.

Sounds like a regional network fault then
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