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Site Issues are Probably Upstream Connectivity Issues [Updated]

posted by martyb on Monday June 24 2019, @12:37PM   Printer-friendly
We are aware of issues when trying to access the site. First noticed at approx. 0300 UTC. Our servers look okay. It appears there may be issues with upstream connectivity.

Also, Linode is planning some server reboots over the next week or so. We will try to give advance notice and keep downtime to a minimum.

Update: Everything seems to have quieted down. Many many thanks to NotSanguine for jumping in and lending his expertise to help identify and isolate where things were borked.

Indications are that a bad BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) route was published causing a relatively small AS (Autonomous System) to have all traffic to/from a large fraction of the internet attempt to go through its routers.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Monday June 24 2019, @02:21PM (2 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Monday June 24 2019, @02:21PM (#859352) Journal

    That may explain why I got a cloudflare "I'm not a robot" screen, before I could connect to some site through a VPN. Which I didn't get without using the VPN.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by NPC-131072 on Monday June 24 2019, @02:37PM (1 child)

    by NPC-131072 (7144) on Monday June 24 2019, @02:37PM (#859358) Journal

    I think that'll just be standard DOS countermeasure due to malicious traffic originating from the VPN netblock.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Thexalon on Monday June 24 2019, @11:22PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Monday June 24 2019, @11:22PM (#859537)

      As a Linux advocate, I am happy to see any countermeasures to DOS deployed widely!

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      The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.