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Twitter experiencing outages

128 points| bavidar | 9 years ago |downforeveryoneorjustme.com | reply

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[+] robbiet480|9 years ago|reply
Outages list [1] says routes aren't being announced via BGP anymore [2]

[1]: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

[2]: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2016-November/0098...

[+] xiaodown|9 years ago|reply
Yep, i'm no expert, but a BGP looking glass seems to suggest that all of the best paths (chosen by AS pathlength?) are not being advertised to peers... But some routes are being advertised? Idk

    Router: Palo Alto, CA - US
    Command: show ip bgp 104.244.42.193

    BGP routing table entry for 104.244.42.0/24
    Versions:
    Process           bRIB/RIB  SendTblVer
    Speaker          261897778   261897778
    Last Modified: Nov  7 06:11:36.675 for 00:02:37
    Paths: (4 available, best #3)
    Advertised to update-groups (with more than one peer):
    0.2 0.3 0.6 0.7
    Advertised to peers (in unique update groups):
    129.250.47.126  129.250.9.146   128.242.180.62  80.150.168.193
    128.241.2.58

    Path #1: Received by speaker 0
    Not advertised to any peer
    13414 13414
    116.51.31.10 (metric 14530) from 129.250.0.18 (129.250.0.18)
    Origin IGP, localpref 120, valid, confed-internal
    Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0
    Community: 2914:370 2914:1405 2914:2406 2914:3400 65400:4134 65420:4134 65460:4134

    Path #2: Received by speaker 0
    Not advertised to any peer
    13414 13414
    62.73.183.110 (metric 28640) from 129.250.0.30 (129.250.0.30)
    Origin IGP, localpref 120, valid, confed-internal
    Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0
    Community: 2914:370 2914:1204 2914:2205 2914:3200 65400:4134 65420:4134 65460:4134

    Path #3: Received by speaker 0
    Advertised to update-groups (with more than one peer):
    0.2 0.3 0.6 0.7
    Advertised to peers (in unique update groups):
    129.250.47.126  129.250.9.146   128.242.180.62  80.150.168.193
    128.241.2.58
    13414 13414
    129.250.195.210 (metric 7029) from 129.250.0.115 (129.250.0.167)
    Origin IGP, localpref 120, valid, confed-internal, best, group-best
    Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 1, version 261897778
    Community: 2914:370 2914:1007 2914:2000 2914:3000 65400:4134 65420:4134 65460:4134
    Originator: 129.250.0.167, Cluster list: 0.0.0.6

    Path #4: Received by speaker 0
    Not advertised to any peer
    13414 13414
    129.250.195.210 (metric 7029) from 129.250.0.116 (129.250.0.167)
    Origin IGP, localpref 120, valid, confed-internal
    Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0
    Community: 2914:370 2914:1007 2914:2000 2914:3000 65400:4134 65420:4134 65460:4134
    Originator: 129.250.0.167, Cluster list: 0.0.0.6
edit: sorry about formatting, i've tried to clean it up.
[+] bryanh|9 years ago|reply
Their API is down too - started slowing down at 2016-11-07T05:44:52Z and went offline in earnest at 2016-11-07T05:47:37Z.

As you can imagine - we have a lot of analytics on this sort of stuff at Zapier. :-) Usually we know about API outages before any official status pages update (besides our own https://status.zapier.com/#app-status). Ironically Twitter's status page is also down... https://dev.twitter.com/overview/status (or maybe that is just their status API? hard to tell).

It is pretty rare for Twitter to go down - even for a moment.

Update - at 2016-11-07T06:12:55Z we're seeing some HTTP 200s...

[+] xiaodown|9 years ago|reply
status.twitter.com redirects to https://status.twitterstat.us/ which presumably is their official status page. Which, by the way, reports that all systems are operational.
[+] mysticlabs|9 years ago|reply
Wikileaks and 4chan also experiencing issues. Looks like a DDoS possibly connected to DNCleaks2 released by Wikileaks a few hours ago.
[+] wybiral|9 years ago|reply
They all seem back up now.
[+] mmaunder|9 years ago|reply
I tend to give twitter a lot of crap, but it's one of my gotos for finding out what is happening during an attack. Not in this case.
[+] noobermin|9 years ago|reply
Instead you came to hacker news? May be "hackers" don't know enough about this place to want to DDoS it.
[+] personjerry|9 years ago|reply
Maybe it's updating its servers to become a protocol
[+] bmiranda|9 years ago|reply
A bit suspicious right before the US election, maybe it's under attack.

We'll find out soon enough.

[+] pixl97|9 years ago|reply
Very possible, a few places are already predicting it.

All the major news stations would love that scenario. Each station gets to broadcast the news they want to say without that pesky little social media providing information that may counter what they are saying.

[+] jgome|9 years ago|reply
Right after WikiLeaks released the last batch of DNC/Podesta/Clinton emails, the most damning ones...

Hmm...

[+] sergers|9 years ago|reply
Wikileaks was briefly down. Then Twitter went down for a bit ( just checked now).

Reddit, yc, Netflix, I had no issues

[+] sergers|9 years ago|reply
Twitter is unreachable again
[+] idlewords|9 years ago|reply
I can still get to it from Singapore, and you all aren't missing anything.
[+] jdub|9 years ago|reply
DNS is fine. Routes are gone. Seeing the same in Sydney and Dallas. Pretty worrying.
[+] jdub|9 years ago|reply
Routes are back!

Bit of a BGP blip there. Nothing to worry about. It's not like anyone's been practising attacks on fundamental Internet infrastructure.

[+] StreamBright|9 years ago|reply
It is kind of weird but this site supposed to be their status page, right? Or this might be scam. Could somebody verify?

http://twitterstatus.tumblr.com/

[+] ben174|9 years ago|reply
I also got redirected to some other odd status page. I failed to grab a screen cap before I lost the page.
[+] dsmithatx|9 years ago|reply
Twitter API is down. Just got alerts. That status page appears abandoned.
[+] rst|9 years ago|reply
Currently regional. Inaccessible from US west coast; seeing responses from web requests from machines on east coast (nyc)
[+] mvindahl|9 years ago|reply
I'm in Europe and it also seems offline from here ATM.

Edit: it's up again

[+] Mao_Zedang|9 years ago|reply
Wikileaks is down also, coincidence?
[+] jackweirdy|9 years ago|reply
I get a 502 for Wikileaks but consensus is there's no BGP announcements for twitter. Possible it's the same attacker but they seem to be two different attacks.
[+] product50|9 years ago|reply
Their own status site is showing wrong info: status.twitter.com

Don't even know what to say anymore.

[+] myf01d|9 years ago|reply
the 400lb hacker strikes again