Topic: World Wide Internet Outage going on right now

[Andy @ Allerton!]

How exciting!

[Andy82lfc]

What are you talking abo

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

[BarryCrocker]

How exciting!

How'd your post get through?

[ChaChaMooMoo]

How'd your post get through?

Tied to the leg of a pigeon probably?!?

[BarryCrocker]

Tied to the leg of a pigeon probably?!?

[Rhi]

UK government, The Guardian, The FT, New York Times among the affected.

[[new username under construction]]

Aliens!!!!

[Andy82lfc]

BBC site down, Guardian site down any more? Maybe it's a UK issue with a specific server?

[Andy82lfc]

UK government, The Guardian, The FT, New York Times among the affected.

NY Times working for me, unless they just got it back online.

[BarryCrocker]

Aliens!!!!

[[new username under construction]]

Amazon, Ebay and Reddit problems

[Rhi]

BBC site down, Guardian site down any more? Maybe it's a UK issue with a specific server?

BBC was fine for me, in fact it's where I got the info about what was down. I checked UK gov and Guardian myself but didn't double check NYT. Does seem to be up now.

Sweepstake on who's work this is?

[Andy82lfc]

Amazon, Ebay and Reddit problems

All working for me. *shrugging shoulders emoji

EDIT: Actually so is BBC now, so they have obviously all just gone back online or got sorted

[ChaChaMooMoo]

BBC site down, Guardian site down any more? Maybe it's a UK issue with a specific server?

Works fine for me. I copied this off BBC a second ago.

A number of leading media websites are currently not working, including the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent and the New York Times.

The UK government website - gov.uk - is also down.

Affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable".

Early reports have suggested it could be related to Fastly, a cloud computing provider, which underpins a lot of major websites.

[Jiminy Cricket]

BBC site down, Guardian site down any more? Maybe it's a UK issue with a specific server?

Apparently, there are with problems with Fastly CDNs.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/08/numerous-popular-websites-are-facing-an-outage

[Andy82lfc]

Works fine for me. I copied this off BBC a second ago.

They just went back up, BBC now reporting it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57399628

[Andy82lfc]

Apparently, there are with problems with Fastly CDNs.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/08/numerous-popular-websites-are-facing-an-outage

That's exactly what Aliens would want us to believe. Always with the 'Fastly outage' excuses.

[S]

Fuck this I’m going back to Teletext

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Everything is working my end

[Andy @ Allerton!]

It was Fastly. Sorted now.

[ChaChaMooMoo]

With built in BBQ raw material?

All we really need is some butter and spices..

[Andy82lfc]

Excitement over then.

At times like this I can't help thinking of Haruki Murakami's famous line

[S]

Excitement over then.

At times like this I can't help thinking of Haruki Murakami's famous line

Which one? I should probably know this.

[Red Beret]

It was Fastly. Sorted now.

Well, that escalated fastly.

[Riquende]

Some of the Q nuts believed it was the start of "the Storm" and the 10 days of darkness that would see all the usual suspects rounded up and executed during the blackout, then communications resuming end of next week with God-Emperor Trump back in power over a now-paedophile free world. The existing (Jewish) financial system was being torn down and the new quantum thingummy was set to make everyone a millionaire by wiping out all debt and paying back every bit of tax ever collected.

This is not an Onion article.

[Commie Bobbie]

Some of the Q nuts believed it was the start of "the Storm" and the 10 days of darkness that would see all the usual suspects rounded up and executed during the blackout, then communications resuming end of next week with God-Emperor Trump back in power over a now-paedophile free world. The existing (Jewish) financial system was being torn down and the new quantum thingummy was set to make everyone a millionaire by wiping out all debt and paying back every bit of tax ever collected.

This is not an Onion article.

[Andy82lfc]

Which one? I should probably know this.

'Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.'

It's from 1Q84. Don't think it was meant in the literal way it is used by most though. Was also used at the end of the film 'the big short'. Like how people have a fascination for destruction also.

I'm not smart enough or have the patience to fully understand 1Q84 though so couldn't tell you the quotes full meaning, which leads me to another quote - Otto - "Apes don't read philosophy!" Wanda - "Yes they do, they just don't understand it!" 

[Elmo!]

Typical this happens on one of the rare days I am working in the office working on things away from my desk and the internet.

Didn't notice a thing.

[Caligula?]

No guesses as to who was behind this. I think it was only yesterday that the FBI announced that they had recovered the millions' worth of crypto that the Russians extorted from that pipeline hack in the US so I guess they're out for a bit of revenge now.

[Buggy Eyes Alfredo]

This!

[Riquende]

This!

Well your problem there, is that they're still eligible voters.

[Elmo!]

No guesses as to who was behind this. I think it was only yesterday that the FBI announced that they had recovered the millions' worth of crypto that the Russians extorted from that pipeline hack in the US so I guess they're out for a bit of revenge now.

Way too early to be saying that. Far more likely someone just fucked up.

[Caligula?]

Way too early to be saying that. Far more likely someone just fucked up.

Possibly, but how does someone fuck up and cause a world wide internet outage though? It's not exactly turned on and off with the flip of a switch.

Given all of the nefarious things going on around the world, I'd say there's a good chance this was malicious.

[Elmo!]

Possibly, but how does someone fuck up and cause a world wide internet outage though? It's not exactly turned on and off with the flip of a switch.

Given all of the nefarious things going on around the world, I'd say there's a good chance this was malicious.

You'd be surprised. Things like this have happened loads of times in the recent past though not made as big headlines as today. It's usually DNS....

[Riquende]

Possibly, but how does someone fuck up and cause a world wide internet outage though?

It wasn't a world wide internet shortage though. The 'internet' as a technology was fine. A part of one company's server infrastructure was affected which prevented the delivery of pages from a lot of websites, including some notables like Amazon, Reddit and the Guardian.

[ShakaHislop]

An internet blackout that knocked out some of the world’s biggest websites on Tuesday was ultimately caused by a single customer updating their settings, the infrastructure provider Fastly has revealed.

A bug in Fastly’s code introduced in mid-May had lain dormant until Tuesday morning, according to Nick Rockwell, the company’s head of engineering and infrastructure. When the unnamed customer updated their settings, it triggered the flaw, which ultimately took down 85% of the company’s network.

“On May 12, we began a software deployment that introduced a bug that could be triggered by a specific customer configuration under specific circumstances,” Rockwell said. “Early June 8, a customer pushed a valid configuration change that included the specific circumstances that triggered the bug, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.

“We detected the disruption within one minute, then identified and isolated the cause, and disabled the configuration. Within 49 minutes, 95% of our network was operating as normal.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/09/fastly-says-single-customer-triggered-bug-that-caused-mass-outage

[Elmo!]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/09/fastly-says-single-customer-triggered-bug-that-caused-mass-outage

As I suspected. Classic Hanlon's Razor.