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Re: Fastly Outage

#151

Post by emptyparadise » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:16 AM UTC

iso1631 wrote: post #60

https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter... The whole idea of the internet was a distributed network impervious to most attacks. The reality is that a single failure can knock out 90% of the services people use.

There are ten websites left on the internet and they're all hosted by four or so megacorps. Isn't it great?

Re: Fastly Outage

#152

Post by plasma » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:16 AM UTC

I briefly saw an output error about "domain not found" when hitting fastly.com, wonder if some list of domains has hit a limit/flushed/etc.

Re: Fastly Outage

#153

Post by nomilk » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

lwhi wrote: post #138

maest wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server

Looks like an error (typo) with Varnish .. it's the same on multiple sites. Maybe a good way to work out which versions are being used.

Same 503 error message on the actual http://fastly.com/ website

Re: Fastly Outage

#154

Post by paimoe » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 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.

In Perth, reddit is down. So is Blackboard files for uni

Re: Fastly Outage

#155

Post by floating_panda » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

tacticalmook wrote: post #139

secondcoming wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Down in UK

Down in US. Also Imgur, which is closely related

Down in india

Re: Fastly Outage

#156

Post by montag » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

an0n4u wrote: post #147

maest wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server

I don't see the typo? definitely a fastly problem though.. Fastly error: unknown domain: numpy.org. Details: cache-pdk17841-PDK

The typo is "Mediation" instead of "Meditation", I think.

Re: Fastly Outage

#157

Post by raphaelj » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

Couldn't be happier I moved https://noisycamp.com to BunnyCDN.com.

Re: Fastly Outage

#158

Post by guiriduro » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

algo_cheese wrote: post #19

csmattryder wrote: post #11

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

> We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services. Guys, you are offline with a 503 error, this is a little more than "potential impact to performance".

Yeah, I also wrote a bot that chooses to create a status incident with the lowest key neutral message when it detects continued healthcheck fails (outside of maintenance) that steps in if an operator hasn't already created an incident. Maybe they're too busy fixing.

Re: Fastly Outage

#159

Post by iso1631 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

lysp wrote: post #111

nineteen999 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

As per report above - most (or all?) of Asia/Pac servers are down. This incident affects: North America (Ashburn (BWI), Ashburn (DCA), Ashburn (IAD)), Europe (Amsterdam (AMS)), and Asia/Pacific (Hong Kong (HKG), Tokyo (TYO), Singapore (QPG)).

Affects far more than that

Re: Fastly Outage

#160

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

pimterry wrote: post #134

This is one of the things that excites me about IPFS: in a world of decentralized data storage, yes self-hosting and control over your data is nice and all, but serious resilience to most random infrastructure outages is a much bigger deal. It's still early days, but I'm hopeful that it can provide a real solution to today's CDN centralization.

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