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I keep trying to submit to HN but I keep getting an error. What's wrong with the internet? FaceBook is down. My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with d

I keep trying to submit to HN but I keep getting an error. What's wrong with the internet? FaceBook is down. My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages. I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received. TrackMania players have talked about having input lag. ycombinator is really slow and reports an error after submitting. "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" (lost count of the times i've tried submitting this) ycombinator turned out to be giving only errors, but now seems to be working occasionally. I can not submit anything, though. Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections. Do you have anything to add to this?

tiluha 5y ago
Some of those can probably be explained by facebooks traffic being redistributed to other services, overloading them
agilob 5y ago
A few wordpress blogs crashed because addon facebook pixel is crashing. Very intensive lesson for the internet!
Animats 5y ago
What's wrong with the internet? With Facebook down, some large DNS servers seem to be struggling with the extra load of failing requests to look up "facebook.com". Cloudflare reports overload with their DNS server at 1.1.1.1, although that's working for me. Billions of things worldwide are trying to connect to Facebook. The lookup which normally returns the IP address for facebook.com on the first try now requires trying a.ns.facebook.com, b.ns.facebook.com, etc. several times each before giving up. Probably several times a minute for everyone who has a Facebook app in their phone turned on. That may be using a big fraction of world DNS resources. Vodaphone Ireland seems to be struggling with a DNS overload right now, per the Irish Independent. Also, their status page can't find "Dublin" as a city.

tiluha 5y ago

Some of those can probably be explained by facebooks traffic being redistributed to other services, overloading them

agilob 5y ago

A few wordpress blogs crashed because addon facebook pixel is crashing. Very intensive lesson for the internet!

Animats 5y ago

What's wrong with the internet? With Facebook down, some large DNS servers seem to be struggling with the extra load of failing requests to look up "facebook.com". Cloudflare reports overload with their DNS server at 1.1.1.1, although that's working for me. Billions of things worldwide are trying to connect to Facebook. The lookup which normally returns the IP address for facebook.com on the first try now requires trying a.ns.facebook.com, b.ns.facebook.com, etc. several times each before giving up. Probably several times a minute for everyone who has a Facebook app in their phone turned on. That may be using a big fraction of world DNS resources. Vodaphone Ireland seems to be struggling with a DNS overload right now, per the Irish Independent. Also, their status page can't find "Dublin" as a city.