Posted on 07/17/2020 7:02:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Internet is actually not under siege and you can still watch Netflix over the weekend, it turns out – though it certainly felt like the digital world had collapsed to PONG levels for a while today.
There are still some dark spots out there, and some sites proving a little rickety, but one of the main providers of the routers that connect domains to their actual IP addresses says they have identified the problem and are watching out for more problems.
As a firestorm blazed over the Internet being essentially down across the world, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince also went online in the past few minutes to precisely identify the issues coming out of a router in Atlanta “that resulted in misrouted traffic to PoPs that connect to our backbone.” He added: “Everything is restored now and we’re looking into the root cause.”
An outage of the Cloudflare DNS service saw websites and connections all over the globe DOA for almost an hour this afternoon. The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” said the widely used web-infrastructure and website-security company about 10 minutes ago on its status page.
The intermittent outage ranges from LA to Amsterdam with the heavily subscribed Amazon Web Services and media sites like Politico and others dark or frozen at times.
It appears that Google’s own Public Domain Name System is also taking on some fire and not function up to expectations. However, that outage seems to be much more sporadic, at least right now.
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I didnt notice anything
Oh well
“I didnt notice anything”
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No probs here, either. Maybe it was on some specific device or platform or world location. Nuthin here, tho.
“felt like the digital world had collapsed to PONG levels”
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Pong was pre-internet. Also, it’s not really slow, though the players may be.
Where is the alleged redundancy?
For all those who are trying to push us into a digital cashless society, be forewarned
from looking around a bit, looks like the only outage was for anyone using cloudflare’s supposed 1.1.1.1 “privacy” DNS resolver ... pretty much anyone using standard DNS services from their own ISPs would have been unaffected ...
Me neither here in central NY State.
Didn’t notice anything with Netflix or general computer usage but ATT Uverse TV was periodically displaying a distortion that rolled from bottom to top of the screen for a couple days.
Dry run.
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