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Big outage of websites?

  • 08-06-2021 11:23am
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,898 ✭✭✭✭


    Guardian, Irish Times, Spectator all down? :confused:


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  • #2
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Guardian, Irish Times, Spectator all down? :confused:

    BBC News down as well.


  • #3
    FHFM500
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭FHFM500


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Guardian, Irish Times, Spectator all down? :confused:

    Reddit as well , somethings up :/


  • #4
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,898 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    CNN down.


  • #5
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    blanch152 wrote: »
    BBC News down as well.

    Working fine for me.

    ETA: just checked again. HTTPS version is working.


  • #6
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,627 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Don't worry lads, RTE news is still up.


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  • #7
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Irish Times

    Screenshot-1.png


  • #8
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,996 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    RTE gets the scoop
    https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0...-global-cyber/


  • #9
    VG31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭VG31


    Images are not loading on Amazon and GitHub.

    Might be an AWS issue.


  • #10
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    Issue is with fastly (confirmed) and aws


  • #11
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,898 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    It's Fastly?
    Fastly error: unknown domain: www.theguardian.com.

    Details: cache-ams21081-AMS


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  • #12
    Sudden Valley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    All these websites down is making my workday very long!


  • #13
    TefalBrain
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭TefalBrain


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    CNN down.

    Thank you hackers.


  • #14
    timetogo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭timetogo1


    This is on BBC News

    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.



    I've noticed a couple of sites acting weird this morning. Thought it was my system. But they might be using Fastly.


  • #15
    Wonderstruck
    Registered Users Posts: 354 ✭✭Wonderstruck


    Sudden Valley wrote: »
    All these websites down is making my workday very long!

    My work computer is down too! Funny coincidence! I suppose I'll do some filling...


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bbc was down briefly but is up again.


  • #17
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,996 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Wonderstruck wrote: »
    My work computer is down too! Funny coincidence! I suppose I'll do some filling...
    Are you a dentist?


  • #18
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I note that the Irish Indo site hasn't been affected.
    This just shows that if it is hackers then they really know what they're doing!


  • #19
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,996 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Bbc was down briefly but is up again.
    tumblr_pyhhjgkDhp1y8s062o1_540.gifv


  • #20
    redt0m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭redt0m


    Sites like theverge.com and polygon.com down as well. Why are so many sites dependent on one CDN provider?


  • #21
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,898 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    I note that the Irish Indo site hasn't been affected.
    This just shows that if it is hackers then they really know what they're doing!

    Or that the Indo and other sites are using different cloud services.

    https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1402205996387389441


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  • #22
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Sudden Valley wrote: »
    All these websites down is making my workday very long!
    Pornhub is still online


  • #23
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Google search clicks throwing up 503 errors


  • #24
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Or that the Indo and other sites are using different cloud services.
    I was being sarcastic in pointing out that the Indo isn't a news site but forgot the smiley face :pac:


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    CNN down.

    About time..


  • #26
    brianwalshcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭brianwalshcork


    The guardian is accessible from Germany, but not from Ireland, the UK or the US.
    cnn.com is also accessible from Germany


  • #27
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    brianwalshcork wrote: »
    The guardian is accessible from Germany, but not from Ireland, the UK or the US.
    cnn.com is also accessible from Germany

    Ditto


  • #28
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭circadian


    Stackoverflow is down too, there's no way back for Fastly now.

    Edit: Appears to be working again....


  • #29
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    airplane-plug.gif

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #30
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,627 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    brianwalshcork wrote: »
    The guardian is accessible from Germany, but not from Ireland, the UK or the US.
    cnn.com is also accessible from Germany

    Yeah, no problems here either. Reddit is the only one down that I can see here.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #31
    Darc19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    I note that the Irish Indo site hasn't been affected.
    This just shows that if it is hackers then they really know what they're doing!

    yep, they just targeted News sites :D

    and according to the indo - they are reporting a wildly exaggerated "HALF the world's websites are down"


  • #32
    whippet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,703 ✭✭✭whippet


    is it an AWS issue - is fastly built on AWS ?


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    whippet wrote: »
    is it an AWS issue - is fastly built on AWS ?

    Wrong way around. AWS was down because of Fastly.


  • #34
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,151 ✭✭✭✭josip


    So what are the repercussions of something like this ?
    Presumably all of the content companies have SLAs with Fastly so that there will be payouts for loss of revenues while down.
    Will some of those claims also be punitive?
    One would expect that Fastly's business insurance would cover it.
    Will anyone switch CDNs over this? Unlikely I would imagine.
    Cloudfare and Akamai might pick up additional new business though.
    Somebody's head high up will have to roll, or at least a 'you'll never work in this town again'.


  • #35
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Here you go:
    https://docs.fastly.com/products/service-availability-sla#availability-invoice-credits

    This has cost fastly about 5% of the monthly bill for customers in the affected regions.

    There'd be no scope for suing or otherwise applying punitive damages. fastly provides an SLA, but if an outage causes extra headaches for a customer, then they need to build in additional mitigations for any fastly outage.


  • #36
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,169 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    It is far more likely to hit their new custom than existing.


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  • #37
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,212 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Boards is also down.


  • #38
    redt0m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭redt0m


    ELM327 wrote: »
    Boards is also down.


    It is, yeah...


  • #39
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,302 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Yeah, no problems here either. Reddit is the only one down that I can see here.
    Reddit is fine for me


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    gmisk wrote: »
    Reddit is fine for me

    Fastly fixed the issue about 50 minutes ago.


  • #41
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Guru meditation errors? Are they running Amigas in their cloud?!?


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  • #42
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭circadian


    My money is on someone doing something stupid with BGP.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So much for the web being designed with no single points of failure. An issue with Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure or this Fastly service seems to be bring large parts of it down.


  • #44
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    To be fair, "the web" was still up. Some websites are overly reliant on a single provider, today's outage will result in some discussions in these companies about what they need to do to account for this in future.

    I don't think anyone thinks the internet is "well-designed", but it is by nature very fault-tolerant and next to impossible to bring down.


  • #45
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    seamus wrote: »
    I don't think anyone thinks the internet is "well-designed", but it is by nature very fault-tolerant and next to impossible to bring down.
    I disagree - the internet is quite vulnerable. If something happened Big Ben, we're in trouble.
    Even the Elders of the Internet allowing people to borrow it puts the modern world at risk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg


  • #46
    biddyearley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭biddyearley


    Boris at work.


  • #47
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Guru meditation? Isn't that a Commodore Amiga thing.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #48
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    Guru meditation? Isn't that a Commodore Amiga thing.
    Yeah, that's where it started.

    In the early days of the web, some web servers included it as an in-joke to display whenever the web server crashed.

    One piece of software still includes it; https://varnish-cache.org/


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    So much for the web being designed with no single points of failure. An issue with Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure or this Fastly service seems to be bring large parts of it down.

    Good thing it's not an airplane :pac:


  • #50
    Genre..
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭Genre..


    "On June 8, we experienced a global service interruption. Here is what happened — and what happens next."

    Lol


  • #51
    crooked cockney villain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭crooked cockney villain


    AIB app on my phone keeps demanding I upgrade, then fails to properly load the upgrade.

    Oh no wait, it's been like that every other time I log in for about four months now. Beyond useless.


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