Level 3 Global Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#101

Post by EE84M3i » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

I'm confused about why Cloudflare had problems but other CDN providers/sites with private CDNs like Google did not. Is there something different about how Cloudflare operates?

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#102

Post by danecek099 » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

Even https://downdetector.com/ has problems loading for me. Middle Europe *internetweathermap is down

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#103

Post by crizzlenizzle » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:37 PM UTC

minxomat wrote: post #75

lucb1e wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN works fine from Germany with Telefonica (O2) and also from the Netherlands with XS4ALL. Edit: Somewhere between 14:00 and 14:46Z it also went down from O2; XS4ALL still works, and O2 can reach XS4ALL.

No luck on T-Mobile

Yup.

``` Prefix 209.216.230.0/24 BGP as_path 3356 21581 21581 ```

As seen from AS3320.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#104

Post by MLij » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

India just lost to Russia in the final of the firstever online chess olympiad, probably due to connection issues of two of its players. I wonder if it's related to this incident and if the organizers are aware. Edit: the organizers are aware, and Russia and India have now been declared joint winner.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#105

Post by willis936 » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

abhishekjha wrote: post #93

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #88

This explains a lot. Initially thought my mobile phone Internet connectivity was flakey because I couldn't access HN here in Australia, whilst it's fine over wi-fi (wired Internet).

Its reverse for me. The broadband fails to connect to HN but my mobile ISP is able to reach it fine.

Same for me in midwest US.

I first thought I had broken my DNS filter again through regular maintenance updates, then I suspected my ISP/modem because it regularly goes out. I have never seen the behavior I saw this morning: some sites failing to resolve.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#106

Post by minxomat » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

crizzlenizzle wrote: post #103

minxomat wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No luck on T-Mobile

Yup. ``` Prefix 209.216.230.0/24 BGP as_path 3356 21581 21581 ``` As seen from AS3320.

Even NordVPN to the nearest German hub is screwed. Have to vpn to the US to access HN.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#107

Post by traceroute66 » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:43 PM UTC

wiremine wrote: post #63

In a situation like this, what are the best "status" sites to be watching?

For a situation like this, the various tools hosted by RIPE are likely your best bet. You won't get a pretty green/red picture, but you'll get a more than enough data to work with.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#108

Post by redwood » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:43 PM UTC

Could this be a Russia move vis a vis today's expected Belarus protests?

(I hope this doesn't mean a violent crackdown is imminent)

Oy https://mobile.twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/13000645356...

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#109

Post by jcims » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:44 PM UTC

regolithori wrote: post #89

iso1210 wrote: post #79

Looks like Centurylink/Level3 (as3356) might not be withdrawing routes after people close their peering?

What could cause this? I wonder what the technical problem is.

I would love to hear the inside scoop from folks working at CenturyLink. I’ve used their DSL for years and the network is a mess. I don’t know if it them here or legacy Level3 but i have a guess.

Edit: Looks like i would have guessed wrong :P. Still want that inside scoop!

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#110

Post by neuronic » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 1:44 PM UTC

danecek099 wrote: post #102

Even https://downdetector.com/ has problems loading for me. Middle Europe *internetweathermap is down

Who watches the Watchmen...