X Is Down

33 points by cheptsov 3 months ago | 23 comments
  • madspindel 3 months ago
    He will trace the DDoS to Ukraine and shut down Starlink there.
    • riffic 3 months ago
      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...

      • ceejayoz 3 months ago
        Yes, it's certainly not unheard of; early Twitter featured the "failwhale" pretty regularly.
        • riffic 3 months 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.

          • Hamuko 3 months ago
            There was a massive time period between the failwhale era and the acquisition. Like 15 years or a bit under?
        • 33a 3 months ago
          BlueSky is still working great.
          • paulddraper 3 months ago
            It had a pretty massive outage on Feb 26 FWIW. And Feb 19.

            I don't recall seeing it on HN though.

            • inzbieda 3 months ago
              Unfortunately I got banned on BS.
          • reverendsteveii 3 months ago
            RussianDriveByMalware.exe has encountered an error and needs to close
            • paulddraper 3 months 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_fred 3 months ago
                If Musk says it's DDOS then it's almost certainly not DDOS.
                • ElijahLynn 3 months 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.
                • SketchySeaBeast 3 months ago
                  "Tracing" a DDoS?
                  • paulddraper 3 months 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.

                • Vixel 3 months ago
                  Good.
                  • thedudeabides5 3 months ago
                    DDoS?
                    • vardump 3 months ago
                      Seems like it. Page loads occasionally succeed.
                      • ashoeafoot 3 months ago
                        No Doge. Similar denial of servuce.
                      • throw16180339 3 months ago
                        I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.
                        • jbverschoor 3 months ago
                          I think they a powercable of the wrong server
                          • SketchySeaBeast 3 months ago
                            Pardon?
                            • jbverschoor 3 months ago
                              They cut the power cable from the wrong server

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