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...
I don't see any bgpmon alerts, that's unlikely.
Level 3 Global Outage
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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.
I see a lot of ads for NordVPN, but you should know they're not necessarily reliable. Just look for NordVPN on hacker news search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (see e.g. the second hit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 covering up security issues, using your connection to proxy other people's traffic, a related company does data mining...). The only VPN that seemed to fit the bill when I looked for one about a year ago was ProtonVPN, but I certainly didn't manage to look at every VPN on the planet and I'm just a random internet stranger so... take that with a grain of salt.
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#124Massive reconvergence event in their network, causing edge router bgp sessions to bounce (due to cpu). Right now all their big peers are shutting down sessions with them to give level3s network the ability to reconverge. Prefixes announced to 3356 are frozen on their route reflectors and not getting withdrawn.
Edit: if you are a Level3 customer shut your sessions down to them.
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#125Can somebody please clarify - what exactly is this an outage of, and how serious is it?
tl;dr One of the large Internet backbone providers (formerly known as Level3, but now known as CenturyLink usually) that many ISPs use is down. Expect issues connecting to portions of the Internet.
Usually the Internet is a bit more resilient to these kinds of things, but there are complicating factors with this outage making it worse.
Expect it to mostly be resolved today. These things have happened a bit more frequently, but generally average up to a couple times a year historically.
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IKEA had their payment system go down worldwide also. I really doubt that uses Cloudflare.
It's not a just CloudFlare outage, its a global CenturyLink/Level3 outage
Is there a ranking board for which carriers have caused the most accumulated network carnage out there? I think the world deserves this.
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#127India 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.
Interesting. How would connection issues cause them to lose? Was it a timed round?
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#128India 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.
Interesting. How would connection issues cause them to lose? Was it a timed round?
Yes, two players lost on time.
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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!
Used level3 IP for a long time professionally with limited issues, ceratainly not on the list of worst ISPs.
Also used a company that over the years has gone from Genesis, GlobalCrossing, Vyvx, Level3 and now of course Level 3 is CenturyLink, which has been fine.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even NordVPN to the nearest German hub is screwed. Have to vpn to the US to access HN.
I see a lot of ads for NordVPN, but you should know they're not necessarily reliable. Just look for NordVPN on hacker news search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (see e.g. the second hit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 covering up security issues, using your connection to proxy other people's traffic, a related company does data mining...). The only VPN that seemed to f…
I know. But they are required to unlock streaming services. I’m not using them for privacy or even normal traffic.