Fastly Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastly Outage

#101

Post by nineteen999 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

Haydos585x2 wrote: post #59

Such a huge number of sites. It seems like it's mostly US based sites and Australians are okay. Sending good vibes to whatever poor person is on support right now.

I'm in Australia and there are heaps of sites down for me.

Re: Fastly Outage

#102

Post by threeseed » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

ClearAndPresent wrote: post #71

What conclusions can we draw about concentrating web content in a few CDNs?

In HTML/CSS you should be able to specify a fallback source if the first returns a non-200.

Or that companies need to have better DNS strategies.

Re: Fastly Outage

#103

Post by Hani1337 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

lpmitchell wrote: post #9

This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

etsy.com too

Re: Fastly Outage

#104

Post by dkarp » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

Before the "Error 503 Service Unavailable" messages appeared, there were a few minutes where the error was a single line:

    connection failure

Not sure if that provides anyone here with more insight into what might have caused this!

Re: Fastly Outage

#105

Post by ramraj07 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

For a moment I thought all of Western internet was cut off from India. Says how siloed my browsing habits are!

Re: Fastly Outage

#106

Post by graphman » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:11 AM UTC

Firebase Dynamic Links is affected too. Checking the IP looks like they are using Fastly which is quite surprising.

Re: Fastly Outage

#107

Post by parksy » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:11 AM UTC

csmattryder wrote: post #11

Here's the status page incident for this. https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

No issues reported for Perth Australia. Strange because reddit, zip pay, fastly itself, and probably a bunch of other sites are down.

Doesn't seem the status page is automatically updated or perhaps whatever event or polling is used is also broken.

Re: Fastly Outage

#108

Post by lpmitchell » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:11 AM UTC

schappim wrote: post #81

threeseed wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder why Amazon is not using Cloudfront for their own website.

Yeah, this is what makes me feel this is more an AWS thing

The m.media-amazon.com domain (and a few other CDN'd domains that they use) are running through Fastly:

    nslookup m.media-amazon.com
    
    Name:  media.amazon.map.fastly.net

It is very interesting that they are not using CloudFront!

Re: Fastly Outage

#109

Post by doublerabbit » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:11 AM UTC

lpmitchell wrote: post #9

This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

https://deb.debian.org is down too which borked my installation.

Re: Fastly Outage

#110

Post by ju-st » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:11 AM UTC

black_puppydog wrote: post #31

lpmitchell wrote: post #9

This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

All of these work from here in Grenoble, France...

Germany here (n=1), everything works except reddit and ft.com