• mesamune@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        downdetector

        Looks like it may have been AWS or something. All kinds of services were down a moment ago. Guess thats what happends when everything is on major cloud services.

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          9 months ago

          Google have their own data centres (and cloud) so it may be something more in the connectivity area.

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            9 months ago

            Maybe, I would expect redundancy. But ultimately I have no clue. I just remember the last time AWS went down. It seemed that a majority of the sites that I used daily were down all in one go.

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              Sometimes redundancy doesn’t help when it comes to network traffic routing. That system is based heavily on trust and an incorrect route being published can cause recursive loops and such that get propagated very quickly to everyone.

              There was a case like this a few years back where a bad route got published by a small ISP, claiming they could handle traffic to a certain set of destinations, but then immediately trying to send that traffic back out again (because they couldn’t actually route to that destination), which bounced right back to them because of the bad route. It was propagated based on implicit trust and took down huge chunks of the Internet for a while

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                  9 months ago

                  Yes, BGP Route Hijacking can be done maliciously although things like BGPSec can make it harder to pull off.

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                  9 months ago

                  It affected the full 8 billion people in the world, not just the few hundred million on the US.

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                    9 months ago

                    So? What does that matter, as long as it impacts the ability of poll watchers and legal support to communicate about illegal manipulation?

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                  9 months ago

                  Yup! BGP is an absolute mess and it is kind of a disgrace that it’s still the lynchpin of the internet

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          9 months ago

          Infrastructure seems likely, but probably not AWS because it affected Google and Facebook so strongly. If it were AWS you’d see Amazon getting badly affected and AWS itself, followed by everyone who relies on AWS for infrastructure.

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            9 months ago

            BBC isn’t a major news source? Remember when they say countries do not confirm, it’s politically motivated. What governments choose to share is up to them and it does not confirm what their intelligence agency actually thinks.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah there’s definitely some sort of major outage going on. Google Play Store is having some problems for me currently too.