Level 3 Global Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

aminozuur wrote: post #150

MLij wrote: post #104

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.

That's fascinating. But I wonder, why don't they start over, or continue where they left off, once the internet is back?

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Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by colinbartlett » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

redwood wrote: post #127

MLij wrote: post #104

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.

Interesting. How would connection issues cause them to lose? Was it a timed round?

Related: World champion Magnus Carlson recently resigned a match after 4 moves as an act of honor because in his previous match with the same opponent, Magnus won solely due to his opponent having been disconnected.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by bmlzootown » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

willis936 wrote: post #105

abhishekjha wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I thought Cloudflare was having issues again, since I use their DNS servers, so I started by changing that. Then I tried restarting everything, modem/router/computer. Wasn't until I connected to a VM that a friend hosts that I was finally able to access HN, and thus saw this thread.

Hopefully this will get fixed within a reasonable timespan.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:35 PM UTC

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Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by jsjohnst » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:38 PM UTC

tpmx wrote: post #157

jsjohnst wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I take from this is that you’re offering input to a thread which you don’t have experience in or even actually understand, thus are spreading misinformation. You then are continually doubling down further showing your maturity. You aren’t helping, so please stop.

I'd wager I'm not spreading disinforming because of said disclaimer and links to emails, but whatatever floats your boat.

Chris Adams made an exasperated comment[0] in the heat of the moment of dealing with an outage. You posting it here and positing it as a possibly valid information is the very definition of spreading misinformation and you did it for what gain? Maybe if multiple folks were saying it or at least agreeing with Chris, it might be different.

Long story short, admit you’re wrong and just move on.

[0] https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013199...

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by hkc » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:39 PM UTC

Chess.com was down due to the outage and some of the Indian players got disconnected and lost on time, so FIDE declared India-Russia joint winner of the Online Chess Olympiad 2020.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by mercer » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

suby wrote: post #16

I was doing development work which uses a server I've got hosted on digital ocean. I started getting intermittent responses which I thought weird as I hadn't changed anything on the server. I spent a good ten minutes trying to debug the issue before searching for something on duckduckgo, which also didn't respond. Cloudfare shouldn't be involved at all with my little site, so I don't think it's limited to just them.

I had problems accessing my Hetzner VPS', but I haven't tried connecting directly with the IP. So I suppose it could be a DNS thing?

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by Axsuul » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:41 PM UTC

eric_khun wrote: post #80

kzrdude wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And > Monitor all 3rd parties services *3rd party services or possibly 3rd parties' services

Thank you, fixed it, I definitely didn't pay attention on this Now wondering if it impacted conversion rate?

Your landing page doesn't build enough trust. You have run on sentences. It's still unclear what the service does.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by eatmyshorts » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:48 PM UTC

I was doing a big release over the evening. I was working fine up until about 6 hours ago, when I signed off. Our network monitors show an outage started about half an hour later (at about 4:05am CST). Service restored a few minutes ago, at about 9:44am CST. I don't know if our problem is the same as this problem, but we are on CenturyLink.

Re: Level 3 Global Outage

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Post by rmrfstar » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:50 PM UTC

_eigenfoo wrote: post #116

Can somebody please clarify - what exactly is this an outage of, and how serious is it?

Here is a fantastic, though somewhat outdated overview [1]. Section 5 is most relevant to your question. The network topology today is a little different. Think of Level3 as an NSP, which is now called a "Tier 1 network" [2]. The diagram should show links among the Tier 1 networks ("peering"), but does not.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network