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I had to use a VPN With US location to post this comment. I am in Europe.

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HN works fine from Germany with Telefonica (O2) and also from the Netherlands with XS4ALL.

Edit: Somewhere between 14:00 and 14:46Z it also went down from O2; XS4ALL still works, and O2 can reach XS4ALL.

No luck on T-Mobile

Yes, I had to switch to my Vodafone eSIM for data to connect to Hacker News.

Yup.

``` Prefix 209.216.230.0/24 BGP as_path 3356 21581 21581 ```

As seen from AS3320.

Even NordVPN to the nearest German hub is screwed. Have to vpn to the US to access HN.

I see a lot of ads for NordVPN, but you should know they're not necessarily reliable. Just look for NordVPN on hacker news search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (see e.g. the second hit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 covering up security issues, using your connection to proxy other people's traffic, a related company does data mining...). The only VPN that seemed to fit the bill when I looked for one about a year ago was ProtonVPN, but I certainly didn't manage to look at every VPN on the planet and I'm just a random internet stranger so... take that with a grain of salt.

I know. But they are required to unlock streaming services. I’m not using them for privacy or even normal traffic.

Alright, just making sure. Happy to hear you're an informed netizen :)

Yeah, I agree that their marketing is aggressive, but a lot else I think is just speculation. The VPN market is very cut-throat, competitors create all kinds of crack-pot conspiracy theories to sow doubt amongst potential customers. As far as I know there was one incident, It wasn't very serious, no customer data was stolen. Also, the company now does 3rd party audits. I think NordVPN is pretty decent, but that's just me.

Works OK in Paris via SFR (home fiber) and Sipartech (Business fiber).

Doesn't work via Bouygues 4G.

My SFR fiber doesn't seem affected all that much. I've been following this for a while on the other HN post [0] and all services people have noted seem to work here.

Both SFR and Sipartech seem to have direct peerings with Cogentco.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24322513

edit: Spotify seems partially down: app doesn't say it's offline, but songs won't play.

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