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Is there a wider internet outage today?
- brucethemoose2 3y agoI know HN is getting hugged right now, but many other websites on mobile and landline internet (in the southern US) are chugging for me. A conspicuous number of services are showing outages on downdetector and thousandeyes.
- TheAceOfHearts 3y agoIs HN struggling so much due to the Apple event or is there another explanation?
- humanistbot 3y agono, something is going on across all the sites I visit
- brucethemoose2 3y agoIt could be both? A wider outage at a high traffic time. HN is timing out constantly for me. So are some Microsoft services. But then some other websites are loading fine...
- midasuni 3y agoHN timeouts only applied while logged in with me
- dang 3y agoCorrect - logged out pages are cached and should serve much faster.
- dredmorbius 3y agoNB, someone was commenting a week ago that HN was observed as faster when logged in, not out: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117794>
- dang 3y agoLike any typical developer, my response is "that shouldn't be happening". If it is happening, that would be most interesting - but we'd need to test to be sure.
- dredmorbius 3y agoYeah, that's my sense as well. Speculation was that it might have been anti-bot countermeasures. I've ... encountered those a few times recently doing my HN front-page research. Though not presenting as latency.
- midasuni 3y agoThat would imply a slowness on the server and not with general internet peering
- dang 3y agoCorrect.
- ftxbro 3y ago> "is there another explanation?" It's aliens. They literally announced they have been reverse engineering space ships from aliens from outer space. I mean I don't think it's true but it's what they announced.
- b112 3y agoAfter I read your comment, I googled. No one official announced anything. Instead an "insider" claims this. Among the claims, is that aliens are working with governements, and provided key tech, such as fiber optics, and silicon chips. Yeah. OK. I can literay, over a century, trace all the key scientific discoveries, how they happened, for transistors, ICs, etc. There was no help. And shining light through glass isn't that fancy of a tech. These articles piss me off. They belittle the capabilities of humans, for profit.
- ahauxuueei 3y agoThe parent is a troll and posted this thread "Is Hacker News slow for you guys too? I think it's the Apple announcements" just 20 minutes earlier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203460
- ftxbro 3y agoI'm not a troll I think both reasons are true.
- sterlind 3y agoI really wish the aliens would hurry up and give us fusion power already, and maybe the cure to all diseases, a theory of everything and quantum computing while they're at it. I didn't need compact discs that badly.
- greggsy 3y agoThis is where HN devolves into Reddit joke threads
- entropie 3y agoI have serious routing/peering issues all day long from germany (vodafone). Dyndns is struggling also for me the entire day.
- dang 3y agoI haven't dug into the logs but I assume it's the Apple announcement. Major perf improvements are coming (fingers crossed), but alas not yet. Sorry all!
- brucethemoose2 3y agoAnother tracker with lots of outages in the US/EU: https://www.pingdom.com/outages/ https://www.pingdom.com/outages/
- trillic 3y agoI setup a few ping monitors and have been trouble routing to Google all day. Intermittent packet loss. The other three I setup (Cloudflare, L3, and ATT) are all good. Funny enough I have Google Fiber, so I really have no clue what's going on.
- nubinetwork 3y agoMost of the websites I use have been fine, outside of the odd hiccups while browsing HN.
- World177 3y agoHN is working without issue for me if I log out of my account. I was worried that my account was suspended for some unknown reason until I saw this post.
- ceejayoz 3y agoLogged-out page views hit the cache. Logged-in ones don’t.
- doompilot 3y agoIt is the hiccup that have been worring me in the past week. I've gotten 502 or error json files from banking, imdb, online doc for some api, gmail, but a retry fixed the issue always. It is not as sexy as all websites are down, but all website are of dubious quality now.
- defenestration 3y agoThere’s a saying on HN: major outages often come from DNS. It was also DNS in the recent WhatsApp outage thread. I’m wondering what the source of the possible broader internet slowness is.
- geocrasher 3y agohttps://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tune-of-let-it-be https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...
- 1970-01-01 3y agoNo, it's just HN going crazy for shiny new Apples.
- vrosas 3y agoWhat if we took down _every_ website for our product announcements?? - some Apple PM, probably
- PeterWhittaker 3y agoYou win the internet today. Not much of a prize, today, maybe you can get a rain check.
- supportengineer 3y agoI’m seeing slowness across-the-board today
- Dwedit 3y agoHad internet outage from the cable ISP.
- Solvency 3y agoHN and Reddit have been tanking for hours for me.
- ftxbro 3y agoaccording to that website it's something called 'china unicorn backbone' that went down
- brucethemoose2 3y agoOh thats weird. China was looking OK when I posted this, but now its lighting up too.
- therein 3y agoChina Unicom https://www.chinaunicom.com.hk/en/global/home.php https://www.chinaunicom.com.hk/en/global/home.php
- bentcorner 3y agoKeming strikes again
- deathanatos 3y agoNow I'm wondering if this is how I got "Server Error" while trying to initiate a POTS call. First time I've ever gotten that. HN also feels sluggish today.
- jkingsman 3y agoAs in, something spoke the words "Server Error" to you when you tried to dial out?
- deathanatos 3y agoNo, actually, the Android phone app put those on the screen. (And yeah, not the more familiar/classic POTS voice message "We're sorry, the number you dialed…") (Quite … uselessly, too. An error in text form when the phone is against my ear is not helpful.)
- hunter2_ 3y agoPOTS has "no mobile capabilities" and is strictly "analog signal transmission over copper loops" [0] so I suspect that's the source of confusion in this case. PSTN is probably the acronym you meant, which refers to "Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is almost entirely digital in its core network and includes mobile and wireless networks" [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_netw...
- deathanatos 3y agoHa, duly noted. Same system to me, I guess. Still a new, never before seen error.
- napsterbr 3y agoOne additional data point that I didn't see mentioned elsewhere yet: Earlier today it took ~10 minutes for a Cloudflare worker of mine to be updated after a deployment was made. This usually happens instantly. Very likely unrelated to a hypothetical wider outage, but thought I'd share anyway.
- acomjean 3y agoPerhaps. Our outlook mail failed today. They said its back, but its still kind of flaky.
- rayiner 3y agoOh shit. I assumed outlook was being flaky because my inbox is 10gb.
- unstatusthequo 3y agoNothing. Have seen ones over 125gb. Something to strive for? ;)
- heywire 3y agoYep, my Outlook mail for work is being flaky. I get notifications of new messages but can’t read the messages (mobile)
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoMicrosoft is having a huge M365 outage: https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status
- whalesalad 3y agoI blame it on Diablo 4 launch.
- gnicholas 3y agoHN has been slow/failing for me today. I assumed it was the WWDC keynote, in particular the One More Thing...
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoUm what? That’s not how the internet works.
- bobs_salsa 3y agoI think they meant the keynote resulted in massive traffic to HN resulting in HN giving itself the hug of death. Totally plausible provided the overlap in communities.
- wongarsu 3y agoHN having server issues when a single post gets 1200 comments in two hours is pretty normal. I don't think any issues with the wider internet are implied
- mind-blight 3y agoUber was pretty spotty in the UK for a few hours today across multiple devices
- rubinlinux 3y agoAll of the MS subscription stuff seems to be slow today: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/microsoft-outlook-down-status-outage-365/ https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/microsoft-outlook-...
- xboxnolifes 3y agoI don't know if this was related, but earlier today my personal internet dropped to 1mbps down for at least 30 minutes. Also had 40% packet loss using the cloudflare speed test on a wired connection. East coast, USA.
- el_benhameen 3y agoI had the same thing happen. I assumed it was my suboptimal wifi setup acting up again and almost got back to researching mesh systems.
- drewmol 3y agoI’ve come to love powerline adapters when expanding Wi-Fi coverage just in case you haven’t looked into them. Speeds of the latest adapters are up to 2.4Gbps!
- throwaway742 3y agohardwired APs > mesh
- bsagdiyev 3y agoWe had what seemed like full connectivity loss for about 5 minutes this morning. Came back as quick as it went, Spectrum fiber outside Raleigh, NC.
- Daunk 3y agoI guess it was a bad day to try out my new internet provider...
- mindcrash 3y agoHere in Europe traffic to cloud services from US based companies has been sluggish or completely disfunctional for days. For example: Microsoft's Xbox app works but is superslow, and this weekend I couldn't even sign in in the EA app anymore for some reason.
- benjaminwootton 3y agoI’ve had problems in the UK with Netflix and PlayStation network.
- JdeBP 3y agoAlthough neither title is in the hyperlinked-to pages, the title here is answered by the title at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624 .
- brucethemoose2 3y agoYeah, I saw this one before I started the thread, but it was marked as dead and I couldnt reply.
- ardit33 3y agoHN Slow..... Outlook failing for me, some other sites a bit slower than usual
- leto_ii 3y agoIn Bucharest I've had problems throughout the day. Most noticeably just now while streaming on HBO Max.
- joshuanapoli 3y agodeveloper.apple.com for account management has also been down most of the day.
- hkchad 3y agoThey always take down apple.com during a WWDC
- hunter2_ 3y agoHad trouble with Google Chat messages getting queued. They automatically retried and were delivered only after restarting the device (Android). This was approximately 2.5 hours ago.
- basementcat 3y agoMight some of the trouble be related to the lower Manhattan internet outage today? https://hellgatenyc.com/lower-manhattans-internet-is-down https://hellgatenyc.com/lower-manhattans-internet-is-down
- ftxbro 3y ago> "We have identified the problem as a street cut impacting hundreds of fiber-optic strands"
- 7ero 3y agoNot sure if this would cause larger regional harm, but anecdotally there were issues connecting to our US east VPN at work.
- nubinetwork 3y agoInteresting, usually this sort of thing turns up on the NANOG mailing list, but it's been pretty quiet over there.
- b112 3y agoNANOG seems mostly dead these days? It was so active 10+ years ago, but I think it's basically gone?
- nubinetwork 3y agoYeah I'm not sure what's up with that... I remember reading a thread on it last year about fires at various Colo DC'S.
- ftxbro 3y agomicrosoft 365 is down https://downdetector.com/status/microsoft-365/ https://downdetector.com/status/microsoft-365/
- AHOHA 3y agoHN was slow today https://files.catbox.moe/13t78u.jpeg https://files.catbox.moe/13t78u.jpeg
- cratermoon 3y agohttps://cybernews.com/security/microsoft-outlook-outage-anonymous-sudan/ https://cybernews.com/security/microsoft-outlook-outage-anon...
- graderjs 3y agoI thought it was related to the big UFO disclosure drop^0. Suppress! Ha ha ha :) 0: https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...
- ggm 3y agoI like the second-order effect here, of measuring how people TALK about the outage to measure the outage. Have a read of: “Is my Internet down?”: Sifting through User-Affecting Outages with Google Trends Ege Cem Kırcı, Martin Vahlensieck, and Laurent Vanbever IMC '22 which is also discussed on PING (podcast at APNIC) and on the APNIC blog (disclaimer: I helped publish this) https://blog.apnic.net/2023/02/10/towards-a-systematic-user-based-approach-for-studying-internet-outages/ https://blog.apnic.net/2023/02/10/towards-a-systematic-user-... https://blubrry.com/ping_podcast/93464445/is-my-internet-down/ https://blubrry.com/ping_podcast/93464445/is-my-internet-dow...
- livinglist 3y agoI thought I was being restricted by admin when I wasn’t able to upvote posts on HN, glad to know I’m not the only one.
- LauraWife 3y ago[dead]
- spicyusername 3y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624