Fastly Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by jfny » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

csomar wrote: post #62

So I'm wondering where in the "hundreds of servers around the world" did they exactly go wrong. This happened with Cloudflare before too. I think we are a little too dependent on these services.

Yeah seriously. Time to rebuilt the architecture from the ground up.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by patentatt » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

madeofpalk wrote: post #287

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

> [0] https://www.gov.uk/ Just checked, thank god the NHS vaccine site is still available - vaccines just got rolled out for under 30s today.

Edit: I didn’t mean anything negative here! Just slightly shocked that as the UK is opening up under 30 vaccinations, the US is struggling to find any more willing takers. It’s really probably a sign that there’s fewer anti-vaxxers in the UK more than anything. And that universal healthcare is more efficient at distribution than an inherently for profit system. I don’t know, but I just didn’t realize it was so different in the UK

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by willvarfar » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57399628 is rendering and reporting on the story, but BBC itself was down at the start of the outage, with the same 503 varnish error message.

Presumably the BBC has some kind of fallback in place.

The journalists ought interview their own techies :)

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by Doxin » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

abluecloud wrote: post #197

fagnerbrack wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet still works, only the websites are returning the wrong response

yeah, the internet is working perfectly. if you want to view 503 errors.

Believe it or not but "the internet" and "the world wide web" are not synonyms.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

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Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by lordpankake » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

schappim wrote: post #81

threeseed wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder why Amazon is not using Cloudfront for their own website.

Yeah, this is what makes me feel this is more an AWS thing

Fastly doesn't run on AWS.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by clydethefrog » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:42 AM UTC

iso1631 wrote: post #48

nindalf wrote: post #13

Taken out xkcd as well.

Isn't there an xkcd comic about CDN failures?

Might be xkcd.com/503.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by abunuwas » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:42 AM UTC

jonplackett wrote: post #302

antihero wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder why amazon.co.uk uses Fastly and not CloudFront?

Must be more than fastly. Heroku is also down.

That's also because of fastly, I've got this response from the Heroku dashboard:

Fastly error: unknown domain: dashboard.heroku.com.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by atymic » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:42 AM UTC

lucasverra wrote: post #168

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

But https://news.ycombinator.com/ is UP! :) Prepare those HN servers for massive influx in 3...2..1..

New error now, hopefully fix in progress.

Fastly error: unknown domain: www.fastly.com.

Details: cache-syd10161-SYD

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by jb1991 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:42 AM UTC

fagnerbrack wrote: post #121

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.

The internet still works, only the websites are returning the wrong response

And only those websites on some networks. If I connect my phone to my cell network instead of wifi, the problem sites work for me.