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Site Issues are Probably Upstream Connectivity Issues [Updated]

posted by martyb on Monday June 24 2019, @12:37PM   

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.

• Re:It's very distressing. (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @01:58AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @01:58AM (#859575)

  So a cluster-fuck by two ISPs who should know better, and small company that didn't and relied on the "pros" to handle things properly. Lovely.

  Additional information: DQE is the new (again) name for Duquesne Light, the incumbent electricity supplier to the Greater Pittsburgh area. The electic company has tons of right of way and easements to move cables around. An age ago I worked for their regional neighbor, who was also trying to play ISP at the time.

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