[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
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       Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
        
       Not loading for me at all, but status page shows green across the
       board.
        
       Author : mikebonnell
       Score  : 297 points
       Date   : 2023-06-29 17:42 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
       | kashnote wrote:
       | Are these status pages updated manually? At the very least it
       | should be able to detect that the home page doesn't even load and
       | turn itself red.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [dupe] / merge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523843
        
       | pieresqi wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | oblongatacur wrote:
       | I noticed Github's OIDC token changed about a half an hour ago.
       | Security incident?
        
         | klysm wrote:
         | Interesting observation, but I'd be surprised if that was
         | related to a regional network fault
        
         | Ysx wrote:
         | They added a second token on Tuesday:
         | https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-27-github-actions-upda...
        
           | berniedurfee wrote:
           | I never got that memo. Found out when it broke something.
        
         | ralgozino wrote:
         | I must ask, how did you notice that?!
        
       | almost_usual wrote:
       | Works for me?
        
       | gaoshan wrote:
       | My team ran some code that crushed our Github actions very
       | shortly before this outage. Nervous laughter around the office
       | that it was us.
        
       | ukrainiancrab wrote:
       | Cannot use oauth2 in algoexpert :/
        
       | hejcloud wrote:
       | I feel sympathy for all the engs at companies I've implemented
       | CI/CD based on Gh Actions in recent years. It's not like I didn't
       | tell them that Github showed to be somewhat unreliable in the
       | recent years and in contrast to their claim "it's just the build
       | pipeline, not the product" I think it is a horrible incident if
       | you're not able to deploy to production and have barely any ad-
       | hoc backup.
       | 
       | I'm always evangelizing Argo or Flux and some self-hosted Gitlab
       | or gitea, but seems like they all prefer to throw their money at
       | Github as of now.
        
         | berniedurfee wrote:
         | Tradeoffs and tolerances need to be considered.
        
       | sparc24 wrote:
       | Azure Strikes Again!
        
       | distortionfield wrote:
       | Down for me as well, Operation Timed Out errors on all attempted
       | SSH connections
        
       | numbsafari wrote:
       | If they used AI to rebuild their system and migrated it Azure, I
       | bet they would stop having all the problems.
        
         | 88913527 wrote:
         | I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
        
           | numbsafari wrote:
           | I'm pretty sure if I e-mailed my sales rep right now they
           | would tell me that Azure Dev Ops doesn't have these problems.
        
             | sdellis wrote:
             | Still can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
        
               | jprd wrote:
               | That's how you know it's good sarcasm
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | jesterman wrote:
       | From GitHub - Incident On 2023-06-29:
       | https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gqx5l06jjxhp?u=ry1xb4...
        
       | duckkg5 wrote:
       | Status page updated showing all red https://www.githubstatus.com/
        
       | edgyquant wrote:
       | Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I
       | immediately assume they've discovered I'm incompetent and fired
       | me. And I'm the head of engineering at my company.
        
         | vrosas wrote:
         | You're not alone.
        
         | Maxion wrote:
         | I think the same thing every time my credentials to our issue
         | tracker expires and I have to log in again.
         | 
         | I am the lead dev on two projects.
        
           | CommitSyn wrote:
           | Is there a name for firing trauma? I'm like this ever since I
           | was scapegoated.
        
             | AdamJacobMuller wrote:
             | I got logged out of our slack today, which I'm the primary
             | owner of, and I was also wondering this.
             | 
             | I've also never been fired, so, it isn't always linked to
             | trauma from past firings.
        
             | jachee wrote:
             | I'm no mental health professional, but that sounds like
             | literal PTSD, to me.
        
               | berniedurfee wrote:
               | There's a long list of signals that can trigger folks
               | into layoff panic.
        
             | addandsubtract wrote:
             | Borderline imposter syndrome?
        
           | [deleted]
        
         | progmetaldev wrote:
         | I get this feeling when I get kicked out of Google services at
         | a different time than my usual 7 days (Monday) log out. I'm an
         | admin of the Google services we use, and I still get that
         | stomach dropping feeling.
        
         | maximilianroos wrote:
         | At a friend's company, the CEO had a calendar invite of "Fire
         | Dan", for April 1. Dan went to confirm it was an April Fools'
         | joke. It wasn't!
        
           | 20after4 wrote:
           | wtf. that's pretty cold.
        
           | progmetaldev wrote:
           | This is something my boss would post in his calendar publicly
           | without even thinking of it. I guess it helps me to get ahead
           | of it, if it were to ever happen to me, but having the rest
           | of the company able to see it is pretty cold and unfeeling.
        
         | voodooEntity wrote:
         | Well im IT Teamlead and imposter syndrom hits me hard too.
         | Always wonder when the day will come.
        
         | mantra2 wrote:
         | Ooof, I felt that. My project management system logs me out a
         | few times a year and each time it happens my heart rate
         | elevates.
        
         | aliasxneo wrote:
         | I resonate with this.
        
         | dreday wrote:
         | Cannot login to slack
        
         | antoineMoPa wrote:
         | > And I'm the head of engineering at my company.
         | 
         | Haha! Happy to see impostor syndrome goes all the way to the
         | top of the hierarchy.
        
           | dreday wrote:
           | Something that I've found that helps me with impostor
           | syndrome is to read and talk about it.
           | 
           | Check out this Ted talk from the co-founder of Atlassian.
           | 
           | https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_cannon_brookes_how_you_can_us.
           | ..
        
         | morkalork wrote:
         | Sounds kind of like those dreams where you can only run slowly,
         | punch with noodly arms and trying to turn on a light just has a
         | dim effect.
        
         | dathinab wrote:
         | thats not very healthy given how unreliable github has become
         | in recent years.
         | 
         | E.g. just yesterday for a short time frame of a few hours maybe
         | half a day or so they had a bug where some closed PRs where
         | shown in the personal which show created _not closed_ PRs.
         | 
         | Or github CI having spurious job cancellations or sometimes on
         | a job failing waits until some (quite long) timeout is reached
         | before reporting it.
         | 
         | Or it temporary being (partial or fully) down for a few hours.
         | 
         | Or it's documentation even through rather complete somehow
         | managing to be often rather inconvenient to use. Oh wait that's
         | not a bug, just subtle bad design, like it's PR
         | overview/filters. Both cases of something which seems right on
         | the first look, but starts being more and more inconvenient the
         | more you use it. A trend I would argue describes GitHub as a
         | whole rather well.
        
           | Wojtkie wrote:
           | Something internal must be going on at Microsoft. My
           | company's PowerBI service has had some major performance
           | issues over the past week
        
       | connorgutman wrote:
       | Up in Africa (Morocco).
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | sdsd wrote:
       | I am laughing so hard right now. My best friend mocked me for
       | using git.lain.faith to host my code, saying it wasn't reliable.
       | Well, well, well. In the last year GitLain hasn't gone down once.
       | 
       | I know he was still right in a way, who knows when git.lain.faith
       | will just disappear. But still. I'm going to send some texts to
       | bother him right now, hahaha.
        
       | mbreese wrote:
       | https://www.githubstatus.com/
       | 
       | Just flipped to red.
       | 
       | See here: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gqx5l06jjxhp
       | 
       |  _> Investigating - We are currently experiencing an outage of
       | GitHub products and are investigating.
       | 
       | >Jun 29, 2023 - 17:52 UTC _
        
         | jachee wrote:
         | As the person in charge of one such page, I'd like to take the
         | opportunity to remind folks that many-- if not most--of these
         | status pages are hand-updated, and most bosses absolutely
         | _hate_ anyone having to update them to anything but green.
        
           | salawat wrote:
           | Sounds like an anti-pattern or SLA dodge to me.
        
             | berniedurfee wrote:
             | Sometimes, but sometimes it's just a precaution against
             | automatic false alarms causing a huge panic.
        
       | Macuyiko wrote:
       | Update
       | 
       | We have identified the root cause of the outage and are working
       | toward mitigation Posted 4 minutes ago. Jun 29, 2023 - 18:02 UTC
        
         | Maxion wrote:
         | Seems like an Oopsie! If they found it so quickly.
        
         | cududa wrote:
         | Seems like it's coming back online in fits and starts
        
       | billy1kaplan wrote:
       | It's down!
       | https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/1674475870931808256?...
        
       | ny711 wrote:
       | This should be a weekly ASK HN; seems to happy pretty frequently
       | at this point
        
       | rvz wrote:
       | Unsurprising. There is at least one outage with GitHub every
       | single month. [0]
       | 
       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967921
        
       | etimberg wrote:
       | Same for me
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | ughitsaaron wrote:
       | Good time to grab a beer!
        
       | computershit wrote:
       | Yup. Totally down, happened right as I opened a PR.
        
         | jonapro wrote:
         | You broke it.
        
       | acim wrote:
       | I just noticed that artifacts download didn't work although the
       | web site was up. There was some varnish proxy error.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | saintblasphemer wrote:
       | Looks like we are back online.
        
       | adpirz wrote:
       | Same
        
       | escape-big-tech wrote:
       | often people point out how unreliable self-hosted services are,
       | well, hosted services are just as unreliable if not more.
       | 
       | this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should always self host
       | critical infrastructure
        
         | iso1631 wrote:
         | Depends on what you want. If you want uptime, then sure. If you
         | want to be able to blame someone then no.
         | 
         | If you are down for 1 hour a year on self hosting, but Office
         | 364 is down 3 days a year, your CEO is going to be more
         | understanding of the Office outage as all his golf buddies have
         | the same problem, and he reads about it in the NYT.
         | 
         | But in any case zero downtime is difficult, that's why you need
         | two independent systems. I had a a 500 microsecond outage at
         | the weekend when a circuit failed which caused an business
         | affecting incident, not a big one fortunately, as it was only
         | some singers, but it was still one that was unacceptable -- had
         | it happened at a couple of other events in the last 12 months
         | it would have been far more problematic. Work has started to
         | ensure it doesn't happen next year.
        
       | saintblasphemer wrote:
       | Same here.
        
       | wcarss wrote:
       | I can't even load the status page.
        
         | makeworld wrote:
         | Status page loads for me, it just incorrectly says all green:
         | https://www.githubstatus.com/
        
           | ketchupdebugger wrote:
           | they just updated it, now its all red
        
           | onionisafruit wrote:
           | Maybe it's right and we're all wrong
        
           | ketchupdebugger wrote:
           | That requires manual acknowledgement. Probably requires an
           | approval from a VP or some high level exec to change that
           | status.
        
           | wcarss wrote:
           | Interesting, I'm used to using status.github.com, which got
           | hit by whatever issue is hitting the main site.
        
           | computronus wrote:
           | GitHub should monitor their status page traffic for spikes,
           | which probably mean something is wrong somewhere, even if
           | they themselves haven't noticed yet.
        
       | gwbas1c wrote:
       | I can't push from my desktop, and https://github.com/ spins in
       | the browser
        
       | MorningInfidel wrote:
       | Same. Spins for a while then dreaded `ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT`
       | chrome error page.
        
       | aftaylor2 wrote:
       | Unable to load Github website or push using git-remote-https as
       | of the last several minutes.
        
       | GrumpyNl wrote:
       | Same here, it cant send a verification sms.
        
         | zamalek wrote:
         | Use the downtime to purchase a Yubikey/FIDO2.
        
       | themusicgod1 wrote:
       | It shouldn't matter. Nobody should be using github post-2018.
        
       | joshstrange wrote:
       | Yep, looks like it's down. Can't pull/push and can't even get the
       | web to load at all.
        
       | facu17y wrote:
       | seems to be a network issue, not a service issue
        
         | lucb1e wrote:
         | Being up on the localhost interface doesn't count!
        
           | berniedurfee wrote:
           | Works on my machine!
        
       | lucb1e wrote:
       | https://codeberg.org open source GitHub without Microsoft (it's a
       | German non-profit). You can also host your own lightweight
       | https://forgejo.org instance
       | 
       | In case anyone questions whether centralizing literally
       | everything onto GitHub is a good idea, at least as a mirror for
       | things you depend on
        
         | escape-big-tech wrote:
         | gitea is also a great self hosted alternative!
        
           | lucb1e wrote:
           | I think that's what Forgejo forked from (and Gitea, in turn,
           | forked from Gogs). I am not involved so don't know the
           | details, but yeah basically all of these will do. I ran my
           | own in the Gitea era and was happy with it, 10x lighter and
           | easier than gitlab, I expect Forgejo has a similar
           | experience.
        
       | ActualHacker wrote:
       | Yep
        
       | klysm wrote:
       | Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. https://github.com/
       | fails to load. https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows all green as
       | of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet
       | https://twitter.com/githubstatus
       | 
       | edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page
       | https://www.githubstatus.com/
       | 
       | edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a
       | regional network fault
        
         | Macuyiko wrote:
         | EU here. Actions are failing to run. Rest is kinda ok.
        
         | edgyquant wrote:
         | Even the status page isn't loading for me currently
        
         | pc86 wrote:
         | Status page is red now, it probably only checks once every
         | couple minutes.
        
         | mkolassa wrote:
         | Looks like they finally updated the second status page to show
         | the outage.
        
         | ChadyWady wrote:
         | Looks like they've updated it now.
        
         | urda wrote:
         | Status page is fully red now.
        
         | cruano wrote:
         | GitHub pages are down too, although funnily enough
         | https://pages.github.com is up
        
           | megadopechos wrote:
           | That is funnily.
        
         | fluix wrote:
         | Pages hosted on github pages also show the unicorn 503 page.
         | However, https://pages.github.com/?(null) loads.
        
         | pjot wrote:
         | Ack'd on twitter:
         | https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/1674475870931808256
        
         | deathanatos wrote:
         | status.github.com was a timeout error for me. githubstatus.com
         | is the rainbow unicorn.
         | 
         | Lunch time.
        
           | klysm wrote:
           | for some reason www.githubstatus.com works while
           | githubstatus.com doesn't
        
         | Maxion wrote:
         | Strange stuff, as it works completely fine for me in the EU? I
         | just posted comments to several issues.
         | 
         | Edit: Front page still loads and I am logged in. Everything is
         | as normal. Status page shows everything is down. Lol.
        
           | leesalminen wrote:
           | Switched on a VPN in EU and it started loading. I can get
           | back to what I was doing now ;).
        
           | klysm wrote:
           | Sounds like a regional network fault then
        
           | facu17y wrote:
           | yes, seems to be a network issue, not a service issue
        
             | berniedurfee wrote:
             | That was my guess. Something on the frontend like a load
             | balancer or proxy blocking traffic, but everything behind
             | that was doing fine.
        
       | Gordonjcp wrote:
       | No it isn't, it's working absolutely fine and has been all
       | afternoon.
        
         | sophacles wrote:
         | githubstatus.com disagrees. Heres the specific incident:
         | https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gqx5l06jjxhp
         | 
         | I think I'll believe them when they say it's down, no offense.
        
           | Gordonjcp wrote:
           | Uhm, okay.
           | 
           | Rather than looking at a rather noddy status page, have you
           | tried using it?
        
             | sophacles wrote:
             | Yes and everything times out.
        
               | Gordonjcp wrote:
               | Are you sure it's Github and not your ISP or something?
               | I've just pushed commits to a bunch of repositories in
               | the past half hour.
        
       | onionisafruit wrote:
       | I heard from somebody at GitHub that this one will make a good
       | incident report. No other details or estimates for recovery time.
        
       | stefanos82 wrote:
       | So down right now...I wonder why they still use
       | https://www.githubstatus.com/ that reports everything is alright
       | when it's not!
        
         | Shekelphile wrote:
         | Pretty much every company has been shown to have fake status
         | pages at this point.
        
           | wsatb wrote:
           | From my experience, GitHub is the best out there when it
           | comes to updating their status page.
        
           | Night_Thastus wrote:
           | Really? Why?
           | 
           | That's so disappointing.
        
             | cududa wrote:
             | Two technical reasons capstoned by driving business
             | motivation:
             | 
             | -False positives -Short outages that last a minute or three
             | 
             | Ultimately, SLA's and uptime guarantees. That way, a
             | business can't automatically tally every minute of publicly
             | admitted downtime against the 99.99999% uptime guarantee,
             | and the onus to prove a breach of contract is on the
             | customer
        
           | AYBABTME wrote:
           | Status pages are updated by humans and the humans need to (1)
           | realize there's a problem and (2) understand the magnitude of
           | the problem and (3) put that on the status page.
           | 
           | It's not fake, it's just a human process. And automating this
           | would be error prone just the same.
        
             | wsatb wrote:
             | I wouldn't necessarily call them fake, but the issue often
             | has to be big enough for most companies to admit to it. AWS
             | often has smaller outages that they will never acknowledge.
        
             | Macuyiko wrote:
             | Very good points. Meanwhile I have clients asking me why
             | they can't have a status page to which I reply: you can,
             | but ultimately to be completely fail proof it will be a
             | human updating it slowly. To which they reply: but GitHub
             | or X does it...
             | 
             | Very infuriating, that.
        
               | AYBABTME wrote:
               | There's some nice tooling these days for this. E.g.
               | https://firehydrant.com/ and https://incident.io both
               | make this a faster, more embedded process.
        
               | sjwhitworth wrote:
               | Hey, incident.io CEO here! Thanks for mentioning us.
        
               | amandamacleod wrote:
               | And Jeli.io for this! With the Statuspage integration,
               | you can set the status, impact, write a message for
               | customers, and select impacted components all without
               | leaving Slack. Statuspage gets updated with a click of a
               | button.
        
             | jachee wrote:
             | Also (2b) convince their boss that the "optics" are better
             | to update sooner than later.
        
           | ezekg wrote:
           | Pretty much. They want the burden of proof for SLAs to fall
           | on the customer, not on themselves. If a customer has to
           | prove that an outage specifically affected them, they are
           | much less likely to have a successful case against the
           | failure to meet their SLA.
           | 
           | (Not directed at GitHub specifically, but at bogus status
           | pages.)
        
           | klysm wrote:
           | fake and not automated are pretty different
        
         | munk-a wrote:
         | https://downdetector.com/status/github/ is a far more reliable
         | source - it's just powered by user reports and often will show
         | issues long before the status page ever receives an update.
        
           | jachee wrote:
           | Keep in mind that downdetector can be brigaded and/or show
           | knock-on problems instead of root causes. e.g. A couple weeks
           | ago there were fairly major spikes across a rather huge
           | variety of services on there, but it turned out that it was
           | actually Comcast that was having trouble, rather than any of
           | the "down" services.
        
         | SV_BubbleTime wrote:
         | If it takes someone to manually change it from green to red,
         | that does seem to defeat the purpose.
        
           | evulhotdog wrote:
           | Yep, and when money comes into play when you're supposed to
           | meet SLAs, you certainly don't want it being automatic.
        
           | klysm wrote:
           | Possibly, but sometimes with failures this bad you can't get
           | to the page to update it.
        
             | munk-a wrote:
             | There was that hilarious multi-hour AWS failure a while
             | back where the status page was updated via one of their
             | internal services... and that service went down as part of
             | the outage.
        
           | jabart wrote:
           | No it doesn't. The amount of false alarm alerts you can get
           | with internet based monitoring is more than 0. You could have
           | a BGP route break things for one ISP your monitoring happens
           | to use. You could have a failover event happening where it
           | takes 30 seconds for everything to converge. I have multiple
           | monitors on my app at 1 minute intervals from different
           | vendors and ALWAYS a user will email us within 5 seconds of
           | an issue. It's not realistic for a company to have automatic
           | status updates trigger things without a person manually
           | reviewing them because too many things can go wrong on the
           | automatic status update to cause panic.
        
             | lucb1e wrote:
             | Who would panic? If nobody notices it's out because it's
             | not, then nobody is going to be checking the status page.
             | And if they do see the status page showing red while it's
             | up, it's not like they're going to be unhappy about their
             | SLA being met.
             | 
             | Maybe you want human confirmation on historic figures, but
             | the live thing might as well be live.
        
             | wongarsu wrote:
             | Most paid status monitoring services cover BGP route
             | problems and ISP issues by only flagging an event if it's
             | detected from X geographically diverse endpoints.
             | 
             | For the 30 seconds where you wait for failover to complete:
             | that is a 30 second outage. It's not necessarily profitable
             | to admit to it, but showing it as a 30 second outage would
             | be accurate
        
               | jabart wrote:
               | Forgot about that centurylink BGP infinite loop route bug
               | they had where it took down their whole system
               | nationwide. A lot of monitoring services showed red even
               | though it was one ISP that was done.
        
               | jabart wrote:
               | TCP default is more than 30 seconds. The internet itself
               | has about a 99.9% uptime. If one company showed every 30
               | second blip on their outage page all their competitors
               | would have that screenshot on the first page of their
               | pitch deck even if they also had the same issue. 2-5
               | minutes is reasonable for a public service to announce an
               | outage.
        
           | distortionfield wrote:
           | Unknown unknowns means you can have catastrophic system
           | failures that automated alerts don't detect.
        
           | AYBABTME wrote:
           | Not really, things fail in unexpected ways. Automated anomaly
           | detection is notoriously error prone, leading to a lot of
           | false positive and false negatives, in the trivial case of
           | monitoring a single timeseries. For a system the size of
           | GitHub, you need to monitor a whole host of things and if
           | it's quasi impossible to do one timeseries well, there's
           | basically no hope of doing automated many timeseries anomaly
           | detection with a signal-to-noise ratio that's better than
           | "humans looking at the thing and realizing it's not going
           | well".
           | 
           | There's stuff like this that can't be automated well. The
           | automated result is far worse than the human-based
           | alternative.
        
           | numbsafari wrote:
           | I bet they could teach Co-Pilot to create a PR to make the
           | change, and build some GitHub actions to automatically merge
           | those changes.
        
       | gazelle21 wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | ushakov wrote:
       | Actions won't start for me
        
       | awesomelvin wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | charlieyu1 wrote:
       | Loads for me
       | 
       | Unless it is cached
       | 
       | Edit: I could even login
        
         | Maxion wrote:
         | Same, in EU and is just as normal.
        
         | lights0123 wrote:
         | Same. I'm in Europe and it loads slowly but it gets there.
        
           | charlieyu1 wrote:
           | And it seems like loading HN is even slower
        
             | iso1631 wrote:
             | Probably because everyone in the US is piling on HN to see
             | if github is down
        
       | coder9874 wrote:
       | Yep it's down. Why do they even bother with the status page
        
       | whitewingjek wrote:
       | Yes, github status says all is operational but hacker news is
       | faster. Go figure.
        
         | munk-a wrote:
         | At this point I don't trust self-owned status pages at all -
         | those crowd-sourced ones where users report issues are much
         | faster to respond to outages that may never even go reported by
         | status pages.
        
       | squalo wrote:
       | Not a single day passes without a MAJOR outage in a Microsoft
       | owned service.
        
       | jetpackjoe wrote:
       | Its down for me
        
       | tednotfred wrote:
       | Down for me right now.
        
       | rk32 wrote:
       | its all down currently
        
       | circuit10 wrote:
       | It works for me at the moment
        
       | renonce wrote:
       | Not down for me accessing from Hong Kong. I suspect this is a
       | regional outage.
        
       | ActualHacker wrote:
       | Since nobody can work, I'll just leave this here: "I must have
       | put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit! I
       | always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."
        
       | datalus wrote:
       | And just when I was about to get into flow state...
        
       | turtleyacht wrote:
       | Won't load for me.
       | 
       | https://githubstatus.com shows all green, but it's not the
       | case...
        
         | jerrygenser wrote:
         | Github status page doesn't even load for me ... "We're having a
         | really bad day, the unicorns have taken over"
        
       | JohnMakin wrote:
       | First noticed when trying to pull a helm chart - get a 503
       | backend error page.
        
       | hn8305823 wrote:
       | 140.82.113.0/24 is visible in the global routing table:
       | route-views>sh bgp 140.82.113.0       BGP routing table entry for
       | 140.82.113.0/24, version 62582026       Paths: (19 available,
       | best #4, table default)
       | 
       | The route is verified by RPKI so it's not a route hijack.
       | 
       | Edit: deleted traceroute
        
         | iso1631 wrote:
         | github.com for me returns 140.82.121.3 which routes fine in the
         | uk, returning from
         | 
         | lb-140-82-121-3-fra.github.com
         | 
         | which from the distance and name I would assume is a frankfurt
         | based load balancer. I get there from BT -> Zayo
         | 
         | I can reach that IP from Washington too, but github returns
         | 140.82.114.3 and 140.82.114.4 from DNS at 1.1.1.1 on a Level3
         | handoff in Washington
         | 
         | Spot checks around the place show the first returned IP as
         | pingable across the world
         | 
         | Bangkok, Dhaka, Jakarta - 20.205.243.166
         | 
         | Seoul - 20.200.245.247
         | 
         | Nairobi - 20.87.225.212
         | 
         | Kabul, Dakar, Amman, Amman, Cairo - 140.82.121.3
         | 
         | Moscow, Riga, Istanbul - 140.82.121.4
         | 
         | Miami - 140.82.114.3
        
           | Maxion wrote:
           | Same from Finland, and same route. (Except my ISP instead of
           | BT).
        
             | iso1631 wrote:
             | They do have other peering -- that IP from my ISP in
             | Jakarta routes onto Hurricane Electric in Singapore and
             | then to github. From Sao Paulo I go to Atlanta, USA, then
             | to Paris and Frankfurt on twelve99/Telia
        
         | llimllib wrote:
         | Your requests made it farther than mine - mine get to charter
         | in nyc and die there                   6  lag-26.nycmny837aw-
         | bcr00.netops.charter.com (24.30.201.130)  158.033 ms
         | lag-16.nycmny837aw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (66.109.6.74)
         | 29.575 ms            lag-416.nycmny837aw-
         | bcr00.netops.charter.com (66.109.6.10)  30.077 ms         7
         | lag-1.pr2.nyc20.netops.charter.com (66.109.9.5)  81.351 ms
         | 37.879 ms  27.877 ms         8  * * *
        
           | alexeldeib wrote:
           | I'm in US east coast with a dev box in Helsinki. My dev box
           | can still hit github.com, but I can't at home.
        
             | musha68k wrote:
             | Curious aside: That sounds like quite the roundtrip for day
             | to day work. How do you cope with that, used to IntelliJ
             | IDEs? ;D
        
             | llimllib wrote:
             | What IP does it resolve to in Helsinki?
        
               | Maxion wrote:
               | From Finland, but not Helsinki: 140.82.121.3
        
               | alexeldeib wrote:
               | yep, same
        
         | traviscj wrote:
         | found the neteng guy
        
         | almost_usual wrote:
         | I'm able to reach on 192.30.252.0/22.
        
         | adnauseum wrote:
         | This is so cool! I'm not at all familiar with any of this
         | network stuff. Any good resources for learning these tools and
         | when to use them?
         | 
         | Sorry to bother!
        
           | ShamelessC wrote:
           | TCP/IP Illustrated is a good start.
        
       | Xeamek wrote:
       | looking on the bright side, at least we'll get an interesting
       | post-mortem to read in a day or two.
        
       | lucb1e wrote:
       | To all the "same" and "not for me" posters: the very least you
       | could add is a location
        
       | gwbas1c wrote:
       | Yaay! I just pushed and my new commit showed up in CI!
        
       | abe-101 wrote:
       | Same here
        
       | mydriasis wrote:
       | Yes. Can't even pull ;(
        
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