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Is there any one place that would be a good first place to go to check on outages like this? It would be really cool and useful to have an "public Internet hea

by jbotz 6y ago

Is there any one place that would be a good first place to go to check on outages like this? It would be really cool and useful to have an "public Internet health monitoring center"... this could be a foundation that gets some financing from industry that maintains a global internet health monitoring infrastructure and a central site at which all the major players announce outages. It would be pretty cheap and have a high return on investment for everybody involved.

thejosh 6y ago
Until that site also goes down.
- lioeters 6y ago
  Indeed, if we're to have a public Internet health meter, it must be distributed and hosted/served from "outside" somehow, to be resilient to all or parts of the network being down.
  - johnisgood 6y ago
    Here's a thought: we should all be outside. :D
- efreak 6y ago
  Something something anycast.
mnadkvlb 6y ago
Sounds like a good idea. The closest i know is the one from pingdom which i use the most. Its not detailed enough though. https://livemap.pingdom.com/ https://livemap.pingdom.com/
guerby 6y ago
In the network world there's the outages mailing list: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages Public archives: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/ https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/ Latest issue reported: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187.html https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187... "Level3 (globally?) impacted (IPv4 only)"
svdr 6y ago
I go here :-)
cultureulterior 6y ago
https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages
- tuukkah 6y ago
  Based on that map, Telia seems to be one of the most affected which might explain why Scandinavia is so badly affected.
dexterdog 6y ago
You just imagined the first target in an attack. Might as well just call it honeypotnumber1.
exikyut 6y ago
This is an excellent idea and simple but moderately expensive for anyone to set up. Just have a site fetch resources from every single hosting provider everywhere. A 1x1 image would be enough, but 1K/100K/1M sized files might also be useful (they could also be crafted images) The first step would be making the HTML page itself redundant. Strict round robin DNS might work well for that. But yeah, moderately expensive - and... thinking about it... it'll honestly come in handy once every ten years? :/

by jbotz 6y ago

thejosh 6y ago

Until that site also goes down.

lioeters 6y ago
Indeed, if we're to have a public Internet health meter, it must be distributed and hosted/served from "outside" somehow, to be resilient to all or parts of the network being down.
- johnisgood 6y ago
  Here's a thought: we should all be outside. :D
efreak 6y ago
Something something anycast.

mnadkvlb 6y ago

Sounds like a good idea. The closest i know is the one from pingdom which i use the most. Its not detailed enough though. https://livemap.pingdom.com/ https://livemap.pingdom.com/

guerby 6y ago

In the network world there's the outages mailing list: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages Public archives: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/ https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/ Latest issue reported: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187.html https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187... "Level3 (globally?) impacted (IPv4 only)"

svdr 6y ago

I go here :-)

cultureulterior 6y ago

https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages

tuukkah 6y ago
Based on that map, Telia seems to be one of the most affected which might explain why Scandinavia is so badly affected.

dexterdog 6y ago

You just imagined the first target in an attack. Might as well just call it honeypotnumber1.

exikyut 6y ago

This is an excellent idea and simple but moderately expensive for anyone to set up. Just have a site fetch resources from every single hosting provider everywhere. A 1x1 image would be enough, but 1K/100K/1M sized files might also be useful (they could also be crafted images) The first step would be making the HTML page itself redundant. Strict round robin DNS might work well for that. But yeah, moderately expensive - and... thinking about it... it'll honestly come in handy once every ten years? :/