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Re:Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems? by Shelnutt2 on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:04PM (#15637966)
Since we are resolving dns, we know its not a dns issue. This appears to be pack loss / routing issue. The most likely cause of this is someone has leaked internal routes, or leaked bgp.

I don't see anything from bgpmon (https://twitter.com/bgpmon) or bgpstream (https://twitter.com/bgpstream) for North America though. There have been multiple bgp leaks today but nothing that I can see that effects comcast/rnc.

It does appear at least some site I'm seeing are being routed through Europe.

  traceroute kayak.com
  traceroute to kayak.com (185.6.169.69), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
   2  96.120.68.17 (96.120.68.17)  7.840 ms  8.995 ms  8.354 ms
   3  96.108.154.229 (96.108.154.229)  8.136 ms  9.174 ms  8.325 ms
   4  be-23-sur03.westroxbury.ma.boston.comcast.net (69.139.221.226)  9.879 ms  7.478 ms  7.667 ms
   5  be-20-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net (68.85.106.21)  9.527 ms  12.000 ms  8.524 ms
   6  * * *
   7  ae-1-16.bar1.zurich1.level3.net (4.69.142.129)  118.578 ms  118.947 ms  118.229 ms
   8  ae-1-16.bar1.zurich1.level3.net (4.69.142.129)  127.931 ms  116.424 ms  117.852 ms
   9  nexellent-a.bar1.zurich1.level3.net (213.242.82.110)  118.340 ms  117.555 ms  115.950 ms
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Re:Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems? by Eyght on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:09PM (#15638022)
Seems like the UK and Germany are under relatively heavy load right now.

https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/...

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Re:Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems? by funwithjustin on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:09PM (#15638031)
Thanks for the info. How on earth could Comcast have a single point of failure for their entire network nation-wide?

Would this suggest that there's possibly something like a MITM attack going on that's hijacking their traffic somewhere?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems? by tclancy on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:18PM (#15638132)
>Thanks for the info. How on earth could Comcast have a single point of failure for their entire network nation-wide?

I guess I've been a Comcast customer too long given I don't even understand your question. It would seem more shocking if it were not something like this.

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