[HN Gopher] Error 404 (Not Found)
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       Error 404 (Not Found)
        
       Author : fairytale
       Score  : 391 points
       Date   : 2021-11-16 17:41 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (spotify.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (spotify.com)
        
       | addcninblue wrote:
       | It looks like everything is back now. That was a short outage by
       | recent standards...
        
       | caffeinated_me wrote:
       | My company was seeing GCP Airflow environments not responding,
       | but they seem to have recovered in the past few minutes.
        
       | jaredeklee13 wrote:
       | Global: Experiencing Issue with Cloud networking
       | 
       | Incident began at 2021-11-16 10:10 (all times are US/Pacific).
       | 
       | https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5R...
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | dave_aiello wrote:
       | Right now homedepot.com and the APIs that drive their mobile app
       | are down too.
        
       | humanistbot wrote:
       | The title of the 404 page on all the down sites has an extra "1"
       | after the exclamation points: "Error 404 (Not Found)!!1"
        
         | decrypt wrote:
         | That has been the case for years!
        
         | jaywalk wrote:
         | That's just a cutesy Internet meme thing.
        
       | jaredeklee13 wrote:
       | Global: Experiencing Issue with Cloud networking Incident began
       | at 2021-11-16 10:10 (all times are US/Pacific).
       | https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5R...
        
       | fsflover wrote:
       | Time to switch to https://bandcamp.com.
        
         | casi18 wrote:
         | or https://ipfs.io/
        
           | dymk wrote:
           | Cool, how do I stream the newest Taylor Swift album on that?
        
             | iso1631 wrote:
             | My colleague (who loves Taylor Swift) bought the mp3s from
             | somewhere (amazon?) and uploaded them onto her plex server
             | the hour it came out.
             | 
             | That server continues to work just fine.
        
               | cheeze wrote:
               | As a heavy plex user, I can't imagine using it as my
               | default music player. CX isn't great for music, IMO.
        
             | [deleted]
        
             | benbristow wrote:
             | You write the domain (ipfs.io) on a blackboard with a chalk
             | pen then take your nails and scratch the board.
             | 
             | (jk.)
        
               | BraveryOverload wrote:
               | DAE THINK POP MUSIC BAD?!
        
       | cronix wrote:
       | Seems to be fixed.
        
       | soheil wrote:
       | Funny thing is when you google Home Depot or Paramount Plus you
       | get ads served by Google as the first result. When click on it
       | Google then shows you a 404 page. I wonder if they'll get a
       | refund on their Adwords campaign.
        
         | makecheck wrote:
         | One of my pet peeves with so many services! Their obnoxious
         | pre-ads can play flawlessly (stealing your time/eyeballs and
         | giving them benefit), and they can _still fail_ to give you the
         | content you exchanged your time /eyeballs to see. Worse, they
         | can repeatedly fail and repeatedly drill the same ads into your
         | brain.
         | 
         | There ought to be a law that essentially says if ads are
         | "paying" for content, there _must_ be a flawless link between
         | ads and content such that the system can tell if the content is
         | available (or detect after the fact that something was not
         | delivered properly). And then, based on that, it either is
         | required to ensure the ad _never plays_ (since the content
         | cannot be delivered), or that the user _must_ be compensated in
         | some way (e.g. we see you were forced to see an ad but got
         | nothing so we are crediting $1 to your account).
        
         | progbits wrote:
         | Why? That's not part of the ad contract. They will get refunded
         | for GCP if it goes out of SLO.
        
       | terramex wrote:
       | Etsy is 404 too: https://www.etsy.com
       | 
       | Seems to be a bigger issue.
       | 
       | edit: Nest is down too: http://nest.com
       | 
       | Fitbit.com is 404 too: https://www.fitbit.com
       | 
       | Big GCP issue?
       | 
       | edit2: Downdetector.com shows multiple website and services as
       | down, including Pokemon GO or Rocket League.
       | 
       | GCP status page is still green all over the board:
       | https://status.cloud.google.com
       | 
       | 19:10 CET update: Some websites are coming back, including
       | spotify.com, but their app still does not work for me.
       | 
       | information about outage just added to GCP status page, direct
       | link:
       | https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5R...
       | 
       |  _Description: We are experiencing an issue with Cloud Networking
       | beginning at Tuesday, 2021-11-16 09:53 US /Pacific._
       | 
       |  _Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue._
       | 
       |  _We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2021-11-16 10:40 US
       | /Pacific with current details._
       | 
       |  _We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption._
       | 
       | 19:20 CET update:
       | 
       |  _Description: We believe the issue with Cloud Networking is
       | partially resolved._
       | 
       |  _Customers will be unable to apply changes to their load
       | balancers until the issue is fully resolved._
       | 
       |  _We do not have an ETA for full resolution at this point._
       | 
       |  _We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2021-11-16 11:28 US
       | /Pacific with current details._
       | 
       | Spotify desktop app still not working for me.
       | 
       | 19:45 CET: Spotify app is back online for me.
        
         | whymauri wrote:
         | Status board got updated:
         | https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5R...
        
         | Nextgrid wrote:
         | I'm assuming all these websites point to Google web frontend
         | servers and for some reason it's no longer able to map the Host
         | header to the proper backend to proxy to.
        
           | profmonocle wrote:
           | For what it's worth, not only HTTP(S) load balancers went
           | down. We have a couple TCP proxy load balancers that went
           | down too.
        
           | notreallyserio wrote:
           | I was seeing regular levels of health checks throughout the
           | entire outage, so they still had configs in place. That seems
           | plausible.
        
           | jeffbee wrote:
           | This is a sort of repetitive outage for Google. They've wiped
           | out the GSLB configs before. A year ago there was also that
           | big outage where they blanked out the whole Gmail delivery
           | configs and started rejecting all mails (even for gmail.com).
           | Config safety is not their strong suit.
        
         | bobo_legos wrote:
         | Homedepot.com appears down as well.
        
         | parthdesai wrote:
         | discord seems to be down as well
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | iso1631 wrote:
         | Another cloud issue? Wow, nearly a week's uptime.
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29197832
        
         | hk1337 wrote:
         | Egnyte had a pretty major outage today too.
         | 
         | https://status.egnyte.com
        
         | ly wrote:
         | When Spotify went down I switched to Youtube Music. Funny how
         | that's still running but Spotify isn't, if it is in fact a
         | Google issue.
        
           | progbits wrote:
           | Internal Google infra and GCP are different beasts. Sure some
           | failure modes take both down but more likely than not they
           | are independent.
        
         | Jugurtha wrote:
         | I have things running on GCP that are OK. I think it's related
         | to nameservers.
        
           | profmonocle wrote:
           | It is (was?) definitely a load balancer issue. We had
           | multiple load balancers on completely different DNS providers
           | fail.
        
         | cscheid wrote:
         | https://deno.land down too. I guess a lot of CI actions will be
         | failing just like ours...
        
           | sholladay wrote:
           | deno.land is working for me, while lots of other sites are
           | not. Did they failover to another provider?
        
             | profmonocle wrote:
             | It seems things are gradually coming back. All of our load
             | balancers started working again.
        
             | cscheid wrote:
             | Working now, yes. Though deno.land's current IP still
             | nslookup's to something inside googleusercontent.com so
             | maybe google has fixed their Side. But it was definitely
             | offline earlier today (cf. our github CI failures and
             | downforeveryoneorjustme)
        
         | XCSme wrote:
         | All work for me in the EU apart from Etsy.
        
         | nuccy wrote:
         | Parts of google are also down it seems, if one clicks three
         | lines on the top right on google.com in mobile browser, then
         | the https://www.google.com/mobile/?newwindow=1 opens, which
         | also appears 404 not found.
        
       | uubk wrote:
       | We found extra rules in our GCLB routing config - removing them
       | restored our service.
        
       | pcbro141 wrote:
       | https://downdetector.com/
       | 
       | yup
        
       | neelr01 wrote:
       | Its back up now :)
        
       | hs86 wrote:
       | https://toggl.com/ is also affected.
        
       | aalbertson wrote:
       | Lowes search was also down.
        
       | _nickwhite wrote:
       | 1:10PM - either it has resolved itself, or a regional issue, but
       | I'm not seeing anything being down from the East coast USA.
        
       | mcintyre1994 wrote:
       | Looks like it's made it to the Google status page:
       | https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5R...
        
       | humanistbot wrote:
       | Sites that are down according to https://downdetector.com include
       | Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, Etsy, Pokemon Go, Epic Games, Target,
       | Paramount+, Evernote
        
       | scame-miv wrote:
       | I was experienced this issue with my spotify app. Initially
       | thought, it was my internet issue lol.
        
       | neelr001 wrote:
       | Its back up now :)
        
       | neelr001 wrote:
       | its back up :)
        
       | NaughtyShiba wrote:
       | Seems to be back already
        
       | saranshk wrote:
       | Our instances started working again, so seems to be fixed
        
       | algorithm_dk wrote:
       | This is clearly the hottest thing on HN right now, and it was
       | bumped from #1 to #6, anyone knows why? Is it some kind of bot
       | protection?
        
         | floatingatoll wrote:
         | User flags, because outages are a fact of everyday life.
        
           | mbesto wrote:
           | Which is dumb, linking to status pages shouldn't be on HN. A
           | blog that has analysis and explanations of outages or post
           | mortems should.
           | 
           | knock-knock dang
        
             | floatingatoll wrote:
             | Dang doesn't see messages like that unless you use the
             | footer Contact link, but I remember a comment from him a
             | while back that I would summarize as "Some site users think
             | it's a good use of HN, and other site users disagree and
             | flag it, and we downweight/dedupe them sometimes and/or if
             | someone emails us with the Contact link". I just didn't
             | want you to wait for a reply that'll never come unless you
             | Contact them.
        
       | MarcScott wrote:
       | Ironically it appears that IsItDownRightNow? is also down,
       | although that could because they're experiencing what is
       | basically going to be the equivalent of a DDOS.
        
         | judge2020 wrote:
         | downdetector.com is the most resistant in my experience.
        
         | Causality1 wrote:
         | I wonder if they have advertising methods in place to turn days
         | like this into a windfall.
        
       | collinmanderson wrote:
       | See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29243740
        
       | markbnj wrote:
       | We were down. Just came back. Things seem to be resolving.
        
       | soheil wrote:
       | I also wonder how many companies didn't want to admit they were
       | using Google for their infrastructure. Downdetector shows AWS
       | being affected, it'd be embarrassing if they were caught using
       | Google Cloud Platform.
        
         | grumple wrote:
         | Seriously doubt that AWS, Facebook are using Google for infra.
         | There's probably some other effect at play, like people using a
         | Google service to connect to these things. Also don't see any
         | effects on those services personally.
        
       | johanam wrote:
       | https://overleaf.com/ is also 404 now
        
       | milesward wrote:
       | It's back up
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | thegranderson wrote:
       | Seems like another DNS issue - switching to Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
       | got me back online...
        
       | deberon wrote:
       | GCP outage? Status page shows green but a bunch of sites seem
       | down (Rocket League most importantly).
        
         | carlhjerpe wrote:
         | Most importantly this game I play for leisure is down!
        
           | NaughtyShiba wrote:
           | I mean, that's a fair point... leisure activity, whatever it
           | is, is required for rest and to avoid burndown
        
           | mosen wrote:
           | I think it was a joke.
        
       | ukd1 wrote:
       | We're also affected.
        
         | ukd1 wrote:
         | and back up and running!
        
       | Jugurtha wrote:
       | My stuff is running OK on GCP, with GKE usage. Maybe it's related
       | to nameservers?
        
         | deforciant wrote:
         | if you are using regional load balancers or serving traffic
         | directly from nodes then you would be fine :) "only" global LB
         | failed
        
       | jacobkg wrote:
       | We bypassed our Google load balancer and pointed DNS directly at
       | the IP addresses of our servers and that seems to have helped
        
       | IceWreck wrote:
       | https://www.navidrome.org/
       | 
       | Self hosted Spotify. Compatible with subsonic clients.
        
         | NaughtyShiba wrote:
         | On one hand, Spotify is much cheaper, on other, perhaps artistd
         | gets paid more (assuming you acquire music legaly)
        
       | dyeje wrote:
       | Discord seems to be down.
        
       | contrahax wrote:
       | Seeing the same - I have projects in us-east1 that went offline
       | first, then us-west1 went offline a few minutes after. Everything
       | green on their status page and nothing in the dashboard -
       | everything returns a 404 so I'm assuming a really high level LB
       | just took a dump.
        
       | Jansin3 wrote:
       | Rocket league perhaps epic games even
        
       | ksajadi wrote:
       | Half the internet is down because of a Google Cloud global issue
       | on their load balancers, including Spotify and Etsy and GCP
       | status is all green: https://status.cloud.google.com If you ever
       | wondered why GCP is a distant third runner in the enterprise
       | cloud space, here is your answer.
        
         | yuliyp wrote:
         | Expecting an instant public post is a bit unrealistic. They had
         | a post up just over 20 minutes after the incident start, which
         | is not that crazy, given that they needed time to triage all of
         | the alarms and understand which component was actually breaking
         | and confirm some technically correct information around it,
         | even if the actual internal incident response can run without
         | the public post.
        
           | corobo wrote:
           | It's Google though.. they stop automating everything?
           | 
           | At least make the screen not show all green or something
           | automatically
        
             | yuliyp wrote:
             | Which things should not be green?
             | 
             | If the automation is working the services will be up. When
             | an incident is happening it's because _something is
             | significantly broken_ , and automation won't properly
             | understand what is and is not working.
             | 
             | For instance, lots of follow-on alarms might be firing for
             | what are not actually issues with the things being
             | monitored: As an example, I would imagine that datacenter
             | temperatures and fan speeds dropped due to the incident,
             | which might cause automation to suspect a facilities issue,
             | but announcing a facilities issue would be misleading.
             | 
             | Or metrics around instances live might be tanking as
             | autoscaling groups start downsizing. This would not be an
             | issue with the autoscaling service, and automatically
             | announcing an autoscaling outage would again be misleading.
             | 
             | In an incident, taking the available data and reaching a
             | conclusion about what is broken and what are effects is
             | something which requires skilled manual effort and is
             | error-prone.
        
               | gowld wrote:
               | Monitoring should be on a different system, unaffected by
               | an outage in the monitored system.
        
         | iso1631 wrote:
         | I'm old enough to remember the old claim that the internet was
         | designed to cope with a nuclear attack.
        
         | deathanatos wrote:
         | Azure has the same issues with updating their status page.
         | Sometimes it never happens.
         | 
         | I might at least hold out some chance that Google Cloud will
         | write an interesting PM, which is something Azure would never
         | do IME.
        
         | yupper32 wrote:
         | The big three cloud platforms all have this issue of delayed
         | status updates. Why do you think it's just GCP?
        
           | mostdataisnice wrote:
           | ...and there's a reason for that. Automations to update the
           | status page are rarely acceptable, since the status page
           | statuses have legal and financial implications. Therefore,
           | the IM usually has to update it (or tell someone to update
           | it). But, realistically, when you get paged, you first need
           | to figure out what exactly is wrong and at least a vague idea
           | of why. Then, you need to tell someone to update the page.
           | Then, it gets updated.
           | 
           | The status page will _always_ lag the outage. It 's not a
           | conspiracy.
        
             | kazen44 wrote:
             | Also, in most teams, people who do external communication
             | are different from those doing triage and troubleshooting.
        
               | cheeze wrote:
               | Yeah, but they are still people who are responding to a
               | page, working on wording and getting it approved, and
               | then updating.
               | 
               | 20 minutes seems pretty reasonable to me.
        
             | gowld wrote:
             | Not updating the status page, to avoid the legal and
             | financial implications, is fraud -- taking money on false
             | pretenses.
        
             | deathanatos wrote:
             | Status pages _should_ be driven that way, though.  "legal
             | and financial" implications and "It's not a conspiracy" is
             | a poor excuse.
             | 
             | Now, I'm on Azure, but it seems like from the comments the
             | situations are similar. So, instead of an automatically
             | updated status page that would help engineers do their
             | jobs, we get a status page that isn't accurate, and
             | customers have pull teeth to get a service credit
             | where/when one is due. And it seems like you can have the
             | cake and eat it too here: while IANAL, a footnote in the
             | SLA or the status page that "this is a machine estimate and
             | not reflective of what goes into the SLA" should do it, no?
        
         | brown9-2 wrote:
         | AWS typically has the same issue
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | ishikawa wrote:
       | it was back in a few minutes. But that wasw pretty weird. App
       | Engine was affected.
        
       | deforciant wrote:
       | https://linear.app/ is also down
        
       | lenniez wrote:
       | Also experience that with all my GCP related infrastructure
       | (Europe)
        
       | mixedbit wrote:
       | Looks like perhaps an issue with Google Load Balancer. We have a
       | load balancer in front of Google Storage Buckets, and can access
       | resources directly from the buckets, but getting 404 when going
       | through the load balancer.
        
         | te_chris wrote:
         | Yep, it's the GLB. Went down for us at 5:46 GMT. Just
         | responding 404 and logs reporting an internal error.
        
         | neom wrote:
         | Non-engineer here - Is there an easy way to multi-provider
         | redundancy around this? Can you have LBs on multiple clouds and
         | use dns to move around or something? Or does your LB have to be
         | at the provider the app is at? Sorry if this makes no sense. :o
        
           | sparrc wrote:
           | yes it's 100% technically possible, the main issue is it
           | would be significantly more expensive.
        
       | cinericius wrote:
       | I wonder if a legal discovery will ever find internal status
       | dashboards that reflect reality rather than fictitious SLA
       | liability-aware status pages.
        
         | hmrr wrote:
         | Your cynicism is justified and clearly based on the same
         | experience I have :)
        
         | paxys wrote:
         | You don't need legal discovery for that. Every "X as a service"
         | contract you sign will explicitly say that SLAs aren't
         | dependent on dashboards/ping tests but rather a mostly
         | subjective measure of "availability".
        
       | melling wrote:
       | I noticed Discord went down for me.
        
       | ruined wrote:
       | nice
        
       | arjan_sch wrote:
       | The 404's changed into 502's.. I guess that's progress. Fingers
       | crossed it's back up soon
        
       | dustinmoris wrote:
       | Things are back online again!
        
       | lukeschlather wrote:
       | As far as I can tell everything is up it's just that our load
       | balancers aren't routing traffic and just returning 404s.
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | Is it regional? Surprised Spotify is not active-active on other
       | platforms like AWS and Azure.
        
       | Thaxll wrote:
       | It's back!
        
       | christophclarke wrote:
       | Snapchat also having issues refreshing
        
         | benbristow wrote:
         | Snapchat runs on the Google Cloud.
        
       | davidkuennen wrote:
       | My app was down too. Can confirm it is most likely the GCloud LB
        
       | Borrible wrote:
       | Yes, but we're still on DEFCON 5.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | cglace wrote:
       | Everything seems to be working on our end as of 1:08 PM EST.
        
       | colewilson wrote:
       | looks like it's back up?
        
       | cronix wrote:
       | back up as of now (10:10a PDT)
       | 
       | This sure makes it easy to know who is hosted by google by going
       | to downdetector.com.
        
         | jakub_g wrote:
         | Github graphql API seems to be throwing error responses for me
         | still
        
         | jonnylangefeld wrote:
         | Hmm it shows the same spike for instagram and aws as well.
         | Would be funny to me if something on their end depends on GCP.
         | https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
         | https://downdetector.com/status/instagram/
        
           | Jenk wrote:
           | Google Analytics registering as client fails, maybe?
        
         | judge2020 wrote:
         | Not exactly hard to do that in the first place
         | whois $(dig +short spotify.com A)              NetName:
         | GOOGLE-CLOUD
        
           | uvdn7 wrote:
           | That only says spotify.com is using GCP's DNS but not
           | necessarily for hosting?
           | 
           | EDIT: I was wrong, as pointed out by shizcakes.
        
             | uvdn7 wrote:
             | While we are at it, looks like spotify.com is using a mix
             | of NS1 and GCP for DNS.
             | 
             | spotify.com. 172800 IN NS dns1.p07.nsone.net.
             | 
             | spotify.com. 172800 IN NS dns2.p07.nsone.net.
             | 
             | spotify.com. 172800 IN NS dns3.p07.nsone.net.
             | 
             | spotify.com. 172800 IN NS dns4.p07.nsone.net.
             | 
             | spotify.com. 172800 IN NS ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com.
             | 
             | spotify.com. 172800 IN NS ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com.
             | 
             | spotify.com. 172800 IN NS ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com.
             | 
             | spotify.com. 172800 IN NS ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com.
        
             | shizcakes wrote:
             | That's not what that says. It's doing a whois on the
             | hosting IP address, not the DNS service.
        
               | [deleted]
        
               | uvdn7 wrote:
               | Ah you're right! Thanks!
        
         | fairytale wrote:
         | Can confirm. https://spotify.com is now working fine.
        
           | corobo wrote:
           | Can unconfirm. I can see their website but the app isn't
           | playing nicely at all
           | 
           | Any non-offline playlists/songs just sit there not playing or
           | telling me I'm offline
           | 
           | edit @ 37min: App also seems to be working again now
        
         | crdrost wrote:
         | Yeah, per the status page, there's a temporary mitigation
         | rolled out while the team tries to figure out more... so no
         | more 404s but load balancers will be locked down for a while
         | while investigation continues.
        
       | te_chris wrote:
       | Affecting us. Busiest time of the year and now down 20 min. It's
       | the Global Load Balancer, so god knows what bit of the global
       | edge has been taken out.
        
         | iso1631 wrote:
         | At least you don't run your own servers
        
       | oussama-gmd wrote:
       | Same here, seems to be an issue with load balancers
        
       | DiFronzo wrote:
       | Oh okay, thought something was on my end.
        
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