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Massive outages across the internet right now
- sbierwagen 11y agoHuh, I have Frontier fios, near Redmond, and it's been up and down for the last day or so.
- zzalpha 11y agoLooks like issues at Verizon... maybe the transition to Frontier (which is supposed to close April 1st) isn't going well... Edit: Looks like Miami is a focal point, too, and Florida is, of course, one of the regions being acquired by Frontier in just a few days... Edit 2: Random aside, headline is rather editorialized. These outages aren't "across the internet". They appear to affect a single operator in a couple of major regions.
- SixSigma 11y ago25% packet loss between Level 3 and Sprint http://internethealthreport.com/Main.aspx?Metric=PL http://internethealthreport.com/Main.aspx?Metric=PL ... fallen to 12.5% now
- t1amat 11y agoPossibly related: Frontier, at least in my area, went down last night for a few hours.
- DonHopkins 11y agoRow Verizon, Column Verizon is yellow. It looks like they're having 2.9% packet loss sending packets to themselves!
- doctorshady 11y agoI think Frontier is acquiring just Verizon's local network; no backhaul or anything.
- jbmorgado 11y agoWhatsApp just stopped working for me. I don't know if it is a local server thing or some central issue.
- jlgaddis 11y agoFWIW, this site is very often inaccurate and out-of-date. For more reliable and accurate information, the outages list is probably what you want to refer to.
- EugeneOZ 11y agoThere are countries besides US on the planet.
- donarb 11y agoOh, thought it said "outrages", that's just another day on the Internet.
- m_st 11y agoJust called a friend in Baghdad over Skype about an hour ago and I can confirm that there are massive outages of the Internet there too. We had to call each other like 10 times for a 15 minutes call. It was very tedious!
- Already__Taken 11y agoSounds like Skype is working as normal at least.
- Bedon292 11y agoDoes packet loss actually translate to unreachable hosts, or does me mean there is just going to be a slowdown due to having to send lost packets again?
- fareesh 11y agoHigh packet loss makes things with a real-time dependency like gaming, streaming, etc. near-impossible.
- rgbrenner 11y agoBoth. It slows down traffic because packets have to be resent, and because of TCP (which assumes that if packets are lost, the connection must be congested, and therefore data should be sent slower). If enough packets are resent the connection may not complete or it may timeout (if a packet needs to be resent multiple times, for ex). I'm the founder of NuevoCloud, and this is one of the problems we are working on. Basically, we can route connections around congestion. So for example, if your website is in dallas and the visitor is in germany, but the normal route has an issue.. then we might reroute it germany > virginia > dallas until the issue is resolved. So your website still stays up.
- aqquadro 11y agoFrom Italy all is fine ;)
- kbart 11y agoThat "massive" outage happens to affect only one ISP and <0,003%(1, 2) of Internet users, no need to panic. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States#providers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States#... 2. http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/ http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/