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Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Curious as to what could cause a global outage like that. The system consists of birds in the air and individual ground stations. There's no big choke point that I'm aware of that could cause the whole shebang to go dark. Am I missing something here?

There is a non-zero probability that Musk personally tried to use Grok to make and roll out a software update.

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Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

#52
post #42

Curious as to what could cause a global outage like that. The system consists of birds in the air and individual ground stations. There's no big choke point that I'm aware of that could cause the whole shebang to go dark. Am I missing something here?

There is a non-zero probability that Musk personally tried to use Grok to make and roll out a software update.

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Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

#55

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I get new public IPs fairly frequently (maybe once every two weeks or so?)

Indeed but in this case it coincided with starlink going down. Could be a coincidence though!

Yeah, that's interesting actually, I guess one could speculate that the fact that you got a new IP might mean they rolled out/restarted something at the application layer and then things went south from there perhaps

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

#56
post #18

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There is no headcount cut here but everything is looking bad for Elon. Tesla stock is down too

> Tesla stock is down too Hope it sinks further. Time to buy.

> Time to buy.

Not even shifting the decimal point left one place would be enough to make the price sensible.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

#58

Curious as to what could cause a global outage like that. The system consists of birds in the air and individual ground stations. There's no big choke point that I'm aware of that could cause the whole shebang to go dark. Am I missing something here?

Cyberattack. Given the usage in active wars, it's a big juicy target. There's precedent too; Russia hacked Viasat at the start of the Ukraine war. They actually bricked user terminals in that attack.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

#59

Curious as to what could cause a global outage like that. The system consists of birds in the air and individual ground stations. There's no big choke point that I'm aware of that could cause the whole shebang to go dark. Am I missing something here?

BGP is the canonical way to take your entire global network offline within seconds. Glancing at BGP looking glasses, Starlink's prefixes seem to still be announced, but there could still be an accidental blackhole or routing loop within their AS, or something broken in one of their transit providers. No idea if that's what's going on, but routing protocols are one of a few effectively global control planes that can g…

If it were BGP/routing, you would think we'd be able to still get a signal and the modem would think it's healthy (although maybe not if the issue prevented us from obtaining our public IP), we just wouldn't be able to route to any dst. In the current case we don't have a signal (orange light on the modem)

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

#60
post #21

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I've heard of IP over pigeons, but using starlings is innovative.

Falcon-related packet loss is a recurring issue.

This is even funnier when you imagine Falcon rockets running into Starlink satellites
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