East Coast Internet Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#41

Post by couchand » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:13 PM UTC

For me, mtr reports quick pings (single digit ms mostly), but HTTP traffic is very spotty. Brooklyn FiOS.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#42

Post by jonknee » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

heatmiser wrote: post #37

mroche wrote: post #24

https://twitter.com/VerizonSupport/status/135410988957298278... There is a fiber cut in Brooklyn. We have no ETR, as of yet. You can use the MY Fios app for updates. *EAG

Does a cut cable in BK account for outages up and down the east coast?

If it's a fiber that goes into major data centers it certainly could.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#43

Post by gen220 » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

Steltek wrote: post #35

gen220 wrote: post #26

My corporate laptop is affected. My roommate’s corporate laptop is totally unaffected. We’re on the same router/gateway. Any theories out there to explain this phenomenon? Fascinating. (My theory is a network partition, where my roommate’s IP addresses happen to be in regions that are on “our side” of the partition, whereas my IP Addresses are on the “other”, unreachable side).

I didn't do any digging but it seems like once you have a connection established, it's not too bad. Is your roommate on a full-tunnel VPN?

They weren’t on a VPN, but my guess is that they got IP addresses from their DNS requests that were on our side of the partition.

In any case, it looks like it’s ended for us. The window for gathering evidence slides closed...

It’ll be interesting to read the post mortem on this one.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#44

Post by podiki » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

Issues here too, I'm on Verizon Fios. Right when starting class, what a mess. (As a colleague joked, Google going down (or Verizon I guess) is like the modern snow day)

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#45

Post by twistedpair » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

Props to Slack, it's the only thing working well for me. GMail, GCP, Meet, all dragging and timing out in Boston.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#46

Post by vrtx0 » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

asmr wrote: post #25

Issues with FiOS in the Boston area. Traceroute seems to point to an issue originating in NY but that's just speculation. Apparently a lot of other services are down. Might be a Tier 1 or 2 ISP.

Same here. Seeing heavy packet loss to most (but not all) sites that route through verizondigitalmedia.com.customer.alter.net in NYC.

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#47

Post by JimiofEden » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

Philly suburbs: Fios has been inconsistent for me for the last hour or so, starting around 11:00

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#48

Post by Here_For_LOLs » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

gen220 wrote: post #36

dx87 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you using different DNS servers? My work laptop was using 8.8.8.8 and is getting name resolution errors, but my personal computer is using 1.1.1.1 and working fine.

Interestingly enough, they’re both deferring DNS to our router, and the router is configured to use DNS servers dynamically provided by the ISP.

its most likely your companies RDP infrastructure (or local environment) operates on AWS. Which is down because of this "cut"

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#49

Post by WarOnPrivacy » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

mroche wrote: post #24

https://twitter.com/VerizonSupport/status/135410988957298278... There is a fiber cut in Brooklyn. We have no ETR, as of yet. You can use the MY Fios app for updates. *EAG

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/brooklyn-fiber-cu...

Re: East Coast Internet Outage

#50

Post by mikesapienza » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

Yes. Pittsburgh area is spotty with FiOS right now.