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Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#111

So, that's why HN is unreachable from Belgium at the moment (right when I was trying to figure a dns cache problem in Firefox,of course). An ssh tunnel through OVH/gravelines is working so far. edit: Proximus. edit2: also, Orange Mobile

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Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#115

I hope these kind of “ipv4” only outages encourages more and more websites to upgrade to ipv6. #OutageBenefit ;)

Sadly, in my experience, ipv4 is generally more reliable than ipv6 still.

Set up two hosts, host A and host B in two different data centers. Make them send HTTP requests to each other over ipv4 and over ipv6. You'll see that latency spikes, packet loss is more frequent over ipv6.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#118

Centurylink is my isp, it looks like traffic drops out after 2 hops. It’s been this way for a few hours

Youtube is still trucking though, not sure how that works

They probably peer into Google at the local IX/Data centre. Google traffic will therefore take a different path which isn’t suffering the current outage.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

#119
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any one place that would be a good first place to go to check on outages like this? It would be really cool and useful to have an "public Internet health monitoring center"... this could be a foundation that gets some financing from industry that maintains a global internet health monitoring infrastructure and a central site at which all the major players announce outages. It would be pretty cheap and have a…

https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages

Based on that map, Telia seems to be one of the most affected which might explain why Scandinavia is so badly affected.
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