Ask HN: What just happened to the internet?

10 points·castis··10 comments

According to http://downdetector.com/ and my own experience from Richmond, almost everything just became unavailable for a short amount of time. A few things are still unavailable on and off.

I expected to see some chatter on here about it, but nothing. I assume everyone else saw the same thing?

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Comcast is currently having a major outage https://outage.report/us/comcast

I am personally seeing about 80% packet loss between a couple of their routers in Chicago

Was on my way to the airport when my support team called me saying the app was down. But Pingdom didn’t alert me! Lots of users still having issues.

Trace route indicates a Telia interchange in ATL is causing the issue, at least for me.

Level 3 seems to be having a major outage

http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

My clients are reporting issues in the DC area as well. AWS status page says everything is up. I can get to CNN but Twitter is down.

Yeah, lots of stuff seemed down. I saw report of an S3 outage in Virginia

It looks like it might be another Comcast issue.

I am on Comcast and can get to some stuff, but not other stuff. Twitter is down, but HN and Google are just fine. Clash Royale was down for me as well.

somebody is testing offensive tools. expect a false flag operation.

I had that thought as well.

notice the reports of the outages appeared well before the fiber was cut.

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