I'm having issues reaching IP addresses unrelated to Cloudflare. Based on some traceroutes, it seems AS174 (Cogent) and AS3356 (Level 3) are experiencing major outages.
Is there any one place that would be a good first place to go to check on outages like this?
It would be really cool and useful to have an "public Internet health monitoring center"... this could be a foundation that gets some financing from industry that maintains a global internet health monitoring infrastructure and a central site at which all the major players announce outages. It would be pretty cheap and have a high return on investment for everybody involved.
Indeed, if we're to have a public Internet health meter, it must be distributed and hosted/served from "outside" somehow, to be resilient to all or parts of the network being down.
This is an excellent idea and simple but moderately expensive for anyone to set up.
Just have a site fetch resources from every single hosting provider everywhere. A 1x1 image would be enough, but 1K/100K/1M sized files might also be useful (they could also be crafted images)
The first step would be making the HTML page itself redundant. Strict round robin DNS might work well for that.
But yeah, moderately expensive - and... thinking about it... it'll honestly come in handy once every ten years? :/
Reddit, HN, etc. are inaccessible to me over my Spectrum fiber connection, but working on AT&T 4G. It’s not DNS, so a tier 1 ISP routing issue seems to be the most likely cause.
> Fastly is observing increased errors and latency across multiple regions due to a common IP transit provider experiencing a widespread event. Fastly is actively working on re-routing traffic in affected regions.
It would be really cool and useful to have an "public Internet health monitoring center"... this could be a foundation that gets some financing from industry that maintains a global internet health monitoring infrastructure and a central site at which all the major players announce outages. It would be pretty cheap and have a high return on investment for everybody involved.