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Re: Is Google Down? - EU networking issue

#31
the initial handshake of the connection in the affected countries is going through all the way obviously so the problem is not google services. the issue is in the interim path

I guess either this is an internet exchange collocation, ISP tier 1 fuckup or some of the non-existent agencies were instructed to sabotage connections. Or they did some interception fuckup.

Re: Is Google Down? - EU networking issue

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post #19

It's not limited to Google, now I wonder if this is actually a Cloudflare/other CDN/International Infra issue or is it that so many services use Google Cloud stuff and they are gone too because of it.

I feel like it's an issue in the Google infrastructure as all services which are down seem to be related to Google. Another example is the HN API, which runs on Firebase.

Spotify as well. I believe they switched from on-premises to Google cloud in 2023.

Re: Is Google Down? - EU networking issue

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the initial handshake of the connection in the affected countries is going through all the way obviously so the problem is not google services. the issue is in the interim path I guess either this is an internet exchange collocation, ISP tier 1 fuckup or some of the non-existent agencies were instructed to sabotage connections. Or they did some interception fuckup.

similar conclusions here

Re: Is Google Down? - EU networking issue

#35

Armenia, down as well.

Can confirm, from Yerevan - Armenia. Internet slow, then slows down to a halt in a matter of 10 seconds. Then it'll work in a burtst of another 10 seconds, and go back to nothing at all, and stay like that for minutes at a time. Internet on a National level is fast. Any connection to the outside seems to go through a bottleneck.

Re: Is Google Down? - EU networking issue

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post #19

It's not limited to Google, now I wonder if this is actually a Cloudflare/other CDN/International Infra issue or is it that so many services use Google Cloud stuff and they are gone too because of it.

I think all affected websites run on google infra somehow, it's not a cloudflare problem . (I love how we are using abreviated "infra" bcz we can't google how to write the full word)

It is funny because this is one of the very few words I learned while a kid to construct it from other parts.

So it is "infra" + "structure" but structure is common word so I need to remember how to write "infra" only.

The most bizarre one is the word "yesterday" which I memorized as "yes" + "ter" + "day" and don't ask me why "ter" because I don't remember.

Re: Is Google Down? - EU networking issue

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post #30

>Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI >One of the largest outages in the history of Google follows It's probably just a coincidence vibe-bros... :P

This quote gets thrown around a lot and I always think about what asdfman123 said here:: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991291
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