Widespread internet outage?

[ohgillian]

I was wondering if there's a big internet problem right now? Several sites I've tried to use aren't working, and if you look at Down Detector, it looks like a lot of sites just went offline...



downdetector.com/

[ohgillian]

Also:

[One Girl In All The World]

Ugh whenever this happens it always makes me anxious.

[cattledogkisses]

I just tried a couple (Southwest, Delta, Amazon) and they're working fine for me. Weird.

[neverfstop]

Could it be regional?

[neverfstop]

FedEx, UPS, Airbnb, and Delta Airlines websites all reporting outages as ‘911 lines down’ along East Coast

[glitzy07]

Interesting. I tried to log-in to my Fidelity 401k this morning and the site was down and I see that listed in the tweet above.

[raangoli]

The sites are back up for me now. Curious to know what happened.

[litebright]

Apparently it was an issue with Akamai's network.

www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/several-major-websites-go-down-in-widespread-internet-outage.html

They are a content distribution network and have a ton of servers in a ton of places.

That said, I take DownDetector data with a grain of salt. It's crowd-sourced, as opposed to having a direct line to any actual data from networks -- I think it relies a lot of picking up complaints via social media feeds, and it may or may not accurately reflect whether a network is actually down or that there's another reason people are having service issues. I've had experiences in the past where it looks like a bunch of telecom networks are down, called those providers for service updates and they're like "Huh? What? Our systems don't show any outages?" and it turns out to be another link in the chain, so to speak -- like a CDN provider or DNS or something else.

[Michelle]

Thank you for posting this. I was trying to cancel travel on some of those sites and thought I was having network issues locally.

[picksthemusic]

Had some issues logging in to some sites this morning, but it's back up now.

[TR]

Jul 22, 2021 12:40:36 GMT -5 litebright said:

Apparently it was an issue with Akamai's network.

www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/several-major-websites-go-down-in-widespread-internet-outage.html

They are a content distribution network and have a ton of servers in a ton of places.

That said, I take DownDetector data with a grain of salt. It's crowd-sourced, as opposed to having a direct line to any actual data from networks -- I think it relies a lot of picking up complaints via social media feeds, and it may or may not accurately reflect whether a network is actually down or that there's another reason people are having service issues. I've had experiences in the past where it looks like a bunch of telecom networks are down, called those providers for service updates and they're like "Huh? What? Our systems don't show any outages?" and it turns out to be another link in the chain, so to speak -- like a CDN provider or DNS or something else.

My school friends and I have been chatting about this. We did a case study on Akamai in our IT Management class lol