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5 bucks on BGP
by ATsch 6y ago
5 bucks on BGP
- toast0 6y agoPossibly, but the pages and ads load fine, just the videos are broken, so I'd take your bet (idiomatically; I'm not a betting person).
- ATsch 6y agoThat makes sense to me, because dynamic pages are not served from a CDN, which do a lot more BGP and routing trickery that could go wrong.
- toast0 6y agoThat's fair, but Google's BGP errors tend to be global. To my knowledge they've never killed their CDN and not everything else. (I have no non-public knowledge, I just pay attention). Will be looking forward to their report.
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoI get a 502 error trying to load the actual video stream
- rajamaka 6y agoDouble down on DNS
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- chrismarlow9 6y agoTriple down on https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le...
- justicezyx 6y agoNetworking would be a likely cause. Usually this type of site-wide outage is always related to networking. BGP, not sure. Google practices SDN. So their software error can rekt a large chunk of infrastructure...
- monatron 6y agoMy understanding is that there was a pretty major fiber cut somewhere on the backbone...