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Discord is entirely down right now, both the website and the app itself. Amusingly, a lot of the sites that normally track outages are also down, which made me
by rococode 6y ago
Discord is entirely down right now, both the website and the app itself. Amusingly, a lot of the sites that normally track outages are also down, which made me think it was my internet at first. Downdetector, monitortheinternet, etc.
Lots of other big sites that are down: Patreon, npmjs, DigitalOcean, Coinbase, Zendesk, Medium, GitLab (502), Fiverr, Upwork, Udemy
Edit: 15 min later, looks like things are starting to come back up
- emsy 6y agoSame for the German downtime trackers.
- thepete2 6y agosame here. I tried if hacker news still works and saw this
- belltaco 6y agohttps://status.discord.com/ https://status.discord.com/ is down. Wow.
- Deathmax 6y agoAnd that is why you host your status page on separate infra.
- Lyrex 6y agoWe're dealing with a deeper level problem here. Since a lot of the internet is relying on Cloudflare DNS at some part or another, even many backup solutions fail. Since so much of DNS is centralised in so few services, such outages hit the core infrastructure of the internet.
- cm2187 6y agoA sudden disruption on a large number of services for everybody at once doesn't look like a DNS problem to me, with all the caching in DNS. It would fail progressively and inconsistently.
- scarby2 6y agogiven that TTLs are usually very short now if your DNS server is configured correctly then caching shouldn't make a bit of difference.
- cm2187 6y agoI looked at the example above, all of patron, digitalocean, coinbase and gitlab (haven't checked the others) have a ttl of 1h.
- Figs 6y agoDNS absolutely was an issue. I changed DNS manually from Cloudflare's 1.0.0.1 (which is what DHCP was giving me) to 8.8.8.8 (Google) and most things I'm trying to reach work. There may be other failures going on as well, but 1.0.0.1 was completely unreachable.
- cm2187 6y agoI don't use cloudflare DNS but google DNS and got the same problems thant everyone else The problem seems to have been resolved now, you might have made the change when they fixed it.
- cuu508 6y ago> I don't use cloudflare DNS but google DNS and got the same problems thant everyone else Cloudflare is also the authoritative DNS server for many services. If Cloudflare is down, then for those services Google's DNS has nowhere to get the authoritative answers from.
- cm2187 6y agoExcept the services mentioned in the original post have a ttl of 1h. Unlikely they would all go down at the same time.
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- rasz 6y agopr0 tip: dont set your DNS TTL to 5 min (status.discord.com does)
- cortesoft 6y agoYeah, but then your status page provider switches THEIR provider, and suddenly you are on the same infra again.
- bufferoverflow 6y agoWorks for me.
- tremon 6y agoI get a DNS servfail when resolving that DNS record, and many others: Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 ** server can't find status.discord.com: SERVFAIL So it's either not just cloudflare, or all those sites use cloudflare to host their DNS.
- anderskaseorg 6y agoThe latter. $ dig +short discord.com ns sima.ns.cloudflare.com. gabe.ns.cloudflare.com.
- WillPostForFood 6y ago8.8.8.8 is Google and is down in addition to Cloudflare. 8.8.4.4 was still up.
- pepemon 6y ago8.8.8.8 is a caching resolver and it wasn't down. Do you understand how caching resolvers work?
- christoph 6y agoSame. It has a big banner saying CloudFlare is down.
- abafazi 6y agoWorks for me too... Australia
- Miner49er 6y agoIt's hosted by statuspage.io, and their own status page was also down (metastatuspage.com). It is now back up, but their page shows the outage.
- proactivesvcs 6y agoStatus turtles all the way down, it seems!
- mackal 6y agoI noticed discord being down, so I went to check downforeveryoneorjustme, also down. So I figured I'd check NANOG mailing list, also down :P
- clairegraham 6y agoYep, we were down completely. We are quite dependent on Cloudflare (frontend + dns).
- saagarjha 6y agoHacker News is an excellent status page for those cases.
- blisseyGo 6y agoOut of curiosity, done HN use any CDN or other way of DDOS protection? dang?
- AdamGibbins 6y agoIt's hosted on AWS, you don't need DDoS protection, just a big wallet.
- saagarjha 6y agoHacker News is self-hosted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767439. Let me see if I can find a better link where the specs are discussed.
- dijit 6y agoThats not even slightly true. Their IP belongs to AS21581; which is registered with a company called 'M5 Computer hosting' out of west-coast USA. m5hosting.com The last hop is Santa Barbera. Definitely does not fall in the AWS ranges.
- gruez 6y agoOnly if you use their "infinitely scaling" services. eg. s3. If the attacker is hammering you with expensive queries and your database is on 1 ec2 server, you're still going to go down.
- ivalm 6y agoThe nameserver is aws but IP4 points to “m5 computer security”
- snazz 6y agoDon't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).
- GeneralTspoon 6y agoSame here! I even checked to see if an AWS region was down once I realised it wasn't on my side (I thought it might have been my ISP's DNS servers or something). The next move was to check Hacker News - thankfully it's not also hosted on Cloudflare, ha!
- solarkraft 6y agoDiscord works for me, but https://redbubble.com/ https://redbubble.com/ prints "Service unavailable".
- maxk42 6y agoDiscord attempted to route me to: everydayconsumers.com/displaydirect2?tp1=b49ed5eb-cc44-427d-8d30-b279c92b00bb&kw=attorney&tg1=12570&tg2=216899.marlborotech.com_47.36.66.228&tg3=fbK3As-awso (Visit at your own risk.) Hack?
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- jpxw 6y agoHow can this be reproduced?
- iamtheyammer 6y agoSure you didn't misspell discord?
- maxk42 6y agoI've never even heard of the site before. Nor have I searched for "attorney" any time recently.
- biermic 6y agoWe operate that site and are using Cloudflare to prevent DDOS attacks. Probably some sort of hash collision...
- rocho 6y agoCrazy stuff!
- Kye 6y agoIt looks like you mistyped it and landed on a domain with spammy redirects. They have all kinds of weird URLs and there's not always any connection to anything you did other than go to the wrong domain.
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- Reason077 6y agoIronically, downdetector.com is also down.
- mavdi 6y agoWho watches the watchmen?
- laughinghan 6y agoDiscord confirmed Cloudflare is also the reason they're down: https://twitter.com/discord/status/1284237737638461453 https://twitter.com/discord/status/1284237737638461453
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago> Amusingly, a lot of the sites that normally track outages are also down, which made me think it was my internet at first. That is why if you have this question, you should go to google.com My guess is that there are more resources invested in making sure google.com stays up than for any other site on the internet.
- qmarchi 6y agoDepending on what part we're talking about, it varies. But yeah, just a few.
- ljm 6y agoI wonder if they are all using Cloudflare's free DNS stuff or if they're paying for business accounts? My stuff is on Netlify (for the next week or so) and the rest is on a VPS bought from a local business who isn't reselling cloud resources. I'm kinda glad I moved all my stuff from cloudflare.
- jorgenphi 6y agoI think it's going to be everyone. Some of my free sites are dead, but also huge enterprise Cloudflare users (Discord/Patreon/4chan) are also dead.
- bloopernova 6y agoDoordash too. My first order. On my wife's birthday. Ah, well. This too shall pass.
- mjayhn 6y agoI did a pickup order a few weeks ago when of all things Tmobile SMS went down for 3+ hours. I couldn't go in the restaurant (covid) and I couldn't text them the parking # I was sitting at in a packed parking lot. I got a flood of about 50 texts a few hours later. Sat there for about an hour waiting for a $9 sandwich. I have no idea if they didn't get my order until late, or if they finally realized it was me or what. About 45 minutes in I decided to just give up on the day and take a nap, woke up to a door knock.
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- macNchz 6y agoMy iPhone actually popped up a message saying that my wifi didn't appear to have internet, which was strange and obviously false as I was actively using the internet on it and the laptop next to it, but now it makes sense that it must have been pinging something backed by cloudflare!
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- dafoex 6y agoI can live without creepy instant messengers, but its shocking just how much everything else relies on one, central system. And furthermore, why is it always cloudflair?
- BrianHenryIE 6y agoCloudflare is free and has a nice UI. I manage ~40 domains from ~six domain registrars through it, the consistency is great. The caching is a bonus.
- LoSboccacc 6y agoidk about the UI the redesign with the forced collapses and extra clicks everywhere is annoying when handling a multitude sub domains plus their let's encrypt text entries I'm there mostly for the freebies.
- leon-z 6y agoKudos to the people at Discord. Just a few minutes after I got disconnected they already tweeted about the issue. Some minutes later and they have a message in their desktop app confirming it's an issue with Cloudflare. All while Cloudflare's statuspage says there are 'minor outages'.
- mjayhn 6y agoEvery company rushes to report an outage when they can blame another vendor, well that might be hyperbolic but it's sure a lot easier!
- imron 6y agoAs a percentage of total traffic, a 'minor' outage for Cloudflare probably equates to a significant outage for a non-trivial amount of the internet. It will also be especially noticeable to end-users, because sites using Cloudflare are typically high-traffic sites, and so a 'minor' issue that affects only a handful of sites is still going to be noticed by millions of people.
- _asummers 6y ago"Your nines are not my nines" [0] [0] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/15/giant/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/15/giant/
- michel-slm 6y agoFreenode's IRC servers were down which was unexpected for me. I was expecting old-school communication networks to not have a dependency on Cloudflare.
- encom 6y agoI've had no connection interruptions to the three IRC networks I'm connected to. Freenode, EFnet and Hackint. I loathe Discord, and I can barely contain myself with schadenfreude at this news.
- fapjacks 6y agoI also had no issues connecting to a few different networks, including Freenode and EFnet.
- e40 6y agoCrazily, my local name resolution started failing, because I have these names servers: 192.168.0.99, 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8. The first does the local resolution, but macOS wasn't consulting it because 1.1.1.1 was failing?? Crazy. When I removed 1.1.1.1 from the list, everything started working.
- Cultmethod 6y agoThought something like this was going on. At first I thought it was my router and restarted everything - to no avail. Glad to see confirmation that it wasn't an issue on my end.
- noobermin 6y agoWould IRC be down?