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33 pointscheptsov1y ago23 comments

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He will trace the DDoS to Ukraine and shut down Starlink there.

pre-acquisition there were frequent Twitter outages. I remember one particular lengthy outage during my brief tenure as a moderator in the Twitter subreddit. I'll state the obvious but it's not entirely unexpected for complex systems to encounter failures.

example from 2021:

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...

ceejayoz1y ago

Yes, it's certainly not unheard of; early Twitter featured the "failwhale" pretty regularly.

riffic1y ago

I'm not talking about Early Twitter though. I specifically bring up an outage in an era with competent organizational ops or SRE capacity.

2021 was well beyond the growing pains in the "failwhale" period.

Hamuko1y ago

There was a massive time period between the failwhale era and the acquisition. Like 15 years or a bit under?

33a1y ago

BlueSky is still working great.

paulddraper1y ago

It had a pretty massive outage on Feb 26 FWIW. And Feb 19.

I don't recall seeing it on HN though.

inzbieda1y ago

Unfortunately I got banned on BS.

uxcolumbo1y ago

Why?

reverendsteveii1y ago

RussianDriveByMalware.exe has encountered an error and needs to close

paulddraper1y ago

Musk says it's DDoS. [1]

It's been in and out today.

[1] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ky6zydYw5QPEfVKV4UT7j9-970...

fred_is_fred1y ago

If Musk says it's DDOS then it's almost certainly not DDOS.

ElijahLynn1y ago

I wouldn't have believed this a few years ago but I do now. If you sell your soul to the biggest liar on Earth, then you are complicit and probably have similar neurological patterns.

SketchySeaBeast1y ago

"Tracing" a DDoS?

paulddraper1y ago

I wouldn't call it tracing, but the usual mitigation is block IPs.

Depending on the nature of the DDoS, you may block it at other parts of the stack.

Vixel1y ago

Good.

thedudeabides51y ago

DDoS?

vardump1y ago

Seems like it. Page loads occasionally succeed.

ashoeafoot1y ago

No Doge. Similar denial of servuce.

throw161803391y ago

I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.

jbverschoor1y ago

I think they a powercable of the wrong server

SketchySeaBeast1y ago

Pardon?

jbverschoor1y ago

They cut the power cable from the wrong server

(Referring to when Elon used bolt cutters in the datacenter)

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23 comments

madspindel1y ago

He will trace the DDoS to Ukraine and shut down Starlink there.

riffic1y ago

example from 2021:

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...

ceejayoz1y ago

Yes, it's certainly not unheard of; early Twitter featured the "failwhale" pretty regularly.

riffic1y ago

I'm not talking about Early Twitter though. I specifically bring up an outage in an era with competent organizational ops or SRE capacity.

2021 was well beyond the growing pains in the "failwhale" period.

Hamuko1y ago

There was a massive time period between the failwhale era and the acquisition. Like 15 years or a bit under?

33a1y ago

BlueSky is still working great.

paulddraper1y ago

It had a pretty massive outage on Feb 26 FWIW. And Feb 19.

I don't recall seeing it on HN though.

inzbieda1y ago

Unfortunately I got banned on BS.

uxcolumbo1y ago

Why?

reverendsteveii1y ago

RussianDriveByMalware.exe has encountered an error and needs to close

paulddraper1y ago

Musk says it's DDoS. [1]

It's been in and out today.

[1] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ky6zydYw5QPEfVKV4UT7j9-970...

fred_is_fred1y ago

If Musk says it's DDOS then it's almost certainly not DDOS.

ElijahLynn1y ago

I wouldn't have believed this a few years ago but I do now. If you sell your soul to the biggest liar on Earth, then you are complicit and probably have similar neurological patterns.

SketchySeaBeast1y ago

"Tracing" a DDoS?

paulddraper1y ago

I wouldn't call it tracing, but the usual mitigation is block IPs.

Depending on the nature of the DDoS, you may block it at other parts of the stack.

Vixel1y ago

Good.

thedudeabides51y ago

DDoS?

vardump1y ago

Seems like it. Page loads occasionally succeed.

ashoeafoot1y ago