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Is there any one place that would be a good first place to go to check on outages like this?

It would be really cool and useful to have an "public Internet health monitoring center"... this could be a foundation that gets some financing from industry that maintains a global internet health monitoring infrastructure and a central site at which all the major players announce outages. It would be pretty cheap and have a high return on investment for everybody involved.

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In the network world there's the outages mailing list:

https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

Public archives:

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/

Latest issue reported:

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187... "Level3 (globally?) impacted (IPv4 only)"

https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages

Based on that map, Telia seems to be one of the most affected which might explain why Scandinavia is so badly affected.

Until that site also goes down.

Indeed, if we're to have a public Internet health meter, it must be distributed and hosted/served from "outside" somehow, to be resilient to all or parts of the network being down.

Here's a thought: we should all be outside. :D

Something something anycast.

This is an excellent idea and simple but moderately expensive for anyone to set up.

Just have a site fetch resources from every single hosting provider everywhere. A 1x1 image would be enough, but 1K/100K/1M sized files might also be useful (they could also be crafted images)

The first step would be making the HTML page itself redundant. Strict round robin DNS might work well for that.

But yeah, moderately expensive - and... thinking about it... it'll honestly come in handy once every ten years? :/

I go here :-)

Sounds like a good idea. The closest i know is the one from pingdom which i use the most. Its not detailed enough though. https://livemap.pingdom.com/

You just imagined the first target in an attack. Might as well just call it honeypotnumber1.

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