[HN Gopher] Is there a wider internet outage today?
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Is there a wider internet outage today?
Author : brucethemoose2
Score : 82 points
Date : 2023-06-05 20:34 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.thousandeyes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.thousandeyes.com)
| xboxnolifes wrote:
| I don't know if this was related, but earlier today my personal
| internet dropped to 1mbps down for at least 30 minutes. Also had
| 40% packet loss using the cloudflare speed test on a wired
| connection. East coast, USA.
| el_benhameen wrote:
| I had the same thing happen. I assumed it was my suboptimal
| wifi setup acting up again and almost got back to researching
| mesh systems.
| drewmol wrote:
| I've come to love powerline adapters when expanding Wi-Fi
| coverage just in case you haven't looked into them. Speeds of
| the latest adapters are up to 2.4Gbps!
| ftxbro wrote:
| microsoft 365 is down
| https://downdetector.com/status/microsoft-365/
| Daunk wrote:
| I guess it was a bad day to try out my new internet provider...
| ardit33 wrote:
| HN Slow..... Outlook failing for me, some other sites a bit
| slower than usual
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| No, it's just HN going crazy for shiny new Apples.
| vrosas wrote:
| What if we took down _every_ website for our product
| announcements??
|
| - some Apple PM, probably
| PeterWhittaker wrote:
| You win the internet today.
|
| Not much of a prize, today, maybe you can get a rain check.
| leto_ii wrote:
| In Bucharest I've had problems throughout the day. Most
| noticeably just now while streaming on HBO Max.
| mindcrash wrote:
| Here in Europe traffic to cloud services from US based companies
| has been sluggish or completely disfunctional for days.
|
| For example: Microsoft's Xbox app works but is superslow, and
| this weekend I couldn't even sign in in the EA app anymore for
| some reason.
| supportengineer wrote:
| I'm seeing slowness across-the-board today
| joshuanapoli wrote:
| developer.apple.com for account management has also been down
| most of the day.
| hkchad wrote:
| They always take down apple.com during a WWDC
| Solvency wrote:
| HN and Reddit have been tanking for hours for me.
| hunter2_ wrote:
| Had trouble with Google Chat messages getting queued. They
| automatically retried and were delivered only after restarting
| the device (Android). This was approximately 2.5 hours ago.
| ftxbro wrote:
| according to that website it's something called 'china unicorn
| backbone' that went down
| therein wrote:
| China Unicom
|
| https://www.chinaunicom.com.hk/en/global/home.php
| bentcorner wrote:
| Keming strikes again
| brucethemoose2 wrote:
| Oh thats weird. China was looking OK when I posted this, but
| now its lighting up too.
| Dwedit wrote:
| Had internet outage from the cable ISP.
| napsterbr wrote:
| One additional data point that I didn't see mentioned elsewhere
| yet:
|
| Earlier today it took ~10 minutes for a Cloudflare worker of mine
| to be updated after a deployment was made. This usually happens
| instantly.
|
| Very likely unrelated to a hypothetical wider outage, but thought
| I'd share anyway.
| nubinetwork wrote:
| Most of the websites I use have been fine, outside of the odd
| hiccups while browsing HN.
| doompilot wrote:
| It is the hiccup that have been worring me in the past week.
| I've gotten 502 or error json files from banking, imdb, online
| doc for some api, gmail, but a retry fixed the issue always. It
| is not as sexy as all websites are down, but all website are of
| dubious quality now.
| World177 wrote:
| HN is working without issue for me if I log out of my account.
| I was worried that my account was suspended for some unknown
| reason until I saw this post.
| ceejayoz wrote:
| Logged-out page views hit the cache. Logged-in ones don't.
| benjaminwootton wrote:
| I've had problems in the UK with Netflix and PlayStation network.
| gnicholas wrote:
| HN has been slow/failing for me today. I assumed it was the WWDC
| keynote, in particular the One More Thing...
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| Um what? That's not how the internet works.
| wongarsu wrote:
| HN having server issues when a single post gets 1200 comments
| in two hours is pretty normal. I don't think any issues with
| the wider internet are implied
| bobs_salsa wrote:
| I think they meant the keynote resulted in massive traffic to
| HN resulting in HN giving itself the hug of death.
|
| Totally plausible provided the overlap in communities.
| mind-blight wrote:
| Uber was pretty spotty in the UK for a few hours today across
| multiple devices
| rubinlinux wrote:
| All of the MS subscription stuff seems to be slow today:
| https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/microsoft-outlook-...
| JdeBP wrote:
| Although neither title is in the hyperlinked-to pages, the title
| here is answered by the title at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624 .
| brucethemoose2 wrote:
| Yeah, I saw this one before I started the thread, but it was
| marked as dead and I couldnt reply.
| deathanatos wrote:
| Now I'm wondering if this is how I got "Server Error" while
| trying to initiate a POTS call. First time I've ever gotten that.
|
| HN also feels sluggish today.
| jkingsman wrote:
| As in, something spoke the words "Server Error" to you when you
| tried to dial out?
| deathanatos wrote:
| No, actually, the Android phone app put those on the screen.
|
| (And yeah, not the more familiar/classic POTS voice message
| "We're sorry, the number you dialed...")
|
| (Quite ... uselessly, too. An error in text form when the
| phone is against my ear is not helpful.)
| hunter2_ wrote:
| POTS has "no mobile capabilities" and is strictly "analog
| signal transmission over copper loops" [0] so I suspect
| that's the source of confusion in this case.
|
| PSTN is probably the acronym you meant, which refers to
| "Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone
| systems, the PSTN is almost entirely digital in its core
| network and includes mobile and wireless networks" [1].
|
| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone
| _netw...
| brucethemoose2 wrote:
| I know HN is getting hugged right now, but many other websites on
| mobile and landline internet (in the southern US) are chugging
| for me.
|
| A conspicuous number of services are showing outages on
| downdetector and thousandeyes.
| trillic wrote:
| I setup a few ping monitors and have been trouble routing to
| Google all day. Intermittent packet loss. The other three I
| setup (Cloudflare, L3, and ATT) are all good. Funny enough I
| have Google Fiber, so I really have no clue what's going on.
| TheAceOfHearts wrote:
| Is HN struggling so much due to the Apple event or is there
| another explanation?
| brucethemoose2 wrote:
| It could be both? A wider outage at a high traffic time.
|
| HN is timing out constantly for me. So are some Microsoft
| services. But then some other websites are loading fine...
| midasuni wrote:
| HN timeouts only applied while logged in with me
| ftxbro wrote:
| > "is there another explanation?"
|
| It's aliens. They literally announced they have been reverse
| engineering space ships from aliens from outer space. I mean
| I don't think it's true but it's what they announced.
| bbarnett wrote:
| After I read your comment, I googled.
|
| No one official announced anything. Instead an "insider"
| claims this. Among the claims, is that aliens are working
| with governements, and provided key tech, such as fiber
| optics, and silicon chips.
|
| Yeah. OK.
|
| I can literay, over a century, trace all the key scientific
| discoveries, how they happened, for transistors, ICs, etc.
| There was no help.
|
| And shining light through glass isn't that fancy of a tech.
|
| These articles piss me off. They belittle the capabilities
| of humans, for profit.
| ahauxuueei wrote:
| The parent is a troll and posted this thread "Is Hacker
| News slow for you guys too? I think it's the Apple
| announcements" just 20 minutes earlier.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203460
| ftxbro wrote:
| I'm not a troll I think both reasons are true.
| entropie wrote:
| I have serious routing/peering issues all day long from
| germany (vodafone).
|
| Dyndns is struggling also for me the entire day.
| humanistbot wrote:
| no, something is going on across all the sites I visit
| brucethemoose2 wrote:
| Another tracker with lots of outages in the US/EU:
| https://www.pingdom.com/outages/
| basementcat wrote:
| Might some of the trouble be related to the lower Manhattan
| internet outage today? https://hellgatenyc.com/lower-manhattans-
| internet-is-down
| ftxbro wrote:
| > "We have identified the problem as a street cut impacting
| hundreds of fiber-optic strands"
| nubinetwork wrote:
| Interesting, usually this sort of thing turns up on the NANOG
| mailing list, but it's been pretty quiet over there.
| 7ero wrote:
| Not sure if this would cause larger regional harm, but
| anecdotally there were issues connecting to our US east VPN
| at work.
| whalesalad wrote:
| I blame it on Diablo 4 launch.
| defenestration wrote:
| There's a saying on HN: major outages often come from DNS. It was
| also DNS in the recent WhatsApp outage thread. I'm wondering what
| the source of the possible broader internet slowness is.
| geocrasher wrote:
| https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...
| acomjean wrote:
| Perhaps. Our outlook mail failed today. They said its back, but
| its still kind of flaky.
| heywire wrote:
| Yep, my Outlook mail for work is being flaky. I get
| notifications of new messages but can't read the messages
| (mobile)
| NovemberWhiskey wrote:
| Microsoft is having a huge M365 outage:
| https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status
| rayiner wrote:
| Oh shit. I assumed outlook was being flaky because my inbox is
| 10gb.
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