• mesamune@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      downdetector

      Looks like it may have been AWS or something. All kinds of services were down a moment ago. Guess thats what happends when everything is on major cloud services.

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        8 months ago

        Google have their own data centres (and cloud) so it may be something more in the connectivity area.

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          8 months ago

          Maybe, I would expect redundancy. But ultimately I have no clue. I just remember the last time AWS went down. It seemed that a majority of the sites that I used daily were down all in one go.

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            Sometimes redundancy doesn’t help when it comes to network traffic routing. That system is based heavily on trust and an incorrect route being published can cause recursive loops and such that get propagated very quickly to everyone.

            There was a case like this a few years back where a bad route got published by a small ISP, claiming they could handle traffic to a certain set of destinations, but then immediately trying to send that traffic back out again (because they couldn’t actually route to that destination), which bounced right back to them because of the bad route. It was propagated based on implicit trust and took down huge chunks of the Internet for a while

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        8 months ago

        Infrastructure seems likely, but probably not AWS because it affected Google and Facebook so strongly. If it were AWS you’d see Amazon getting badly affected and AWS itself, followed by everyone who relies on AWS for infrastructure.

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          8 months ago

          BBC isn’t a major news source? Remember when they say countries do not confirm, it’s politically motivated. What governments choose to share is up to them and it does not confirm what their intelligence agency actually thinks.