Fastly Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by smcl » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:19 AM UTC

zkldi wrote: post #164

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

Mediation is a real word though?

That is true, but the typo is because they presumably meant to reference this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by mothershesha » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

Got the same here (Australia)

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by smhost » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

rvz wrote: post #119

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

Centralising everything™ and the whole internet goes down because of that.

if by "everything" you mean one thing, and by "centralize" you mean not centralized, then sure.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by montag » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

It's funny, I searched Twitter for "Ebay down" and the top result was an Ebay tweet with some not coincidentally broken Twitter emoji SVGs (as another person mentioned)...

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by taurath » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

I’ve noticed lots of social media content is tied to this - Reddit and Twitter images and some videos, for one.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by SileNce5k » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

dkarp wrote: post #104

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!

It was `connection failure` for me.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by silviot » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 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

Same here in Germany: imgur and reddit are down, plus a bunch of other sites.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by Harzza » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

aunetx wrote: post #140

creamyhorror wrote: post #12

basically the internet is down reddit, stackoverflow, github, paypal, pypi, twitter, twitch, NYT, CNN, BBC, the Guardian... edit: wow, even Amazon.com relies on Fastly for some of its edge caches!

Opened my browser, ad my three major Web pages : github, gitlab.gnome.org and old.reddit.com... They all are down.

Unless you're browsing reddit without logging in, you can just set the old reddit theme from your account settings so you don't need to use the old. prefix :)

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by rich_sasha » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

www.python.org down as well, with the shortest of messages: 'connection failure'. Probably related?

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by twic » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

ur-whale wrote: post #169

Looks like an SRE team rolled out buggy software.

Let's start getting our guesses in.

I think it's some dodgy VCL rolled out to all machines at once. For some reason it worked in staging.