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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by longtermdd on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:41AM (#24329275)
Fastly was also down
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by EE84M3i on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:52AM (#24329324)
Youtube and Akamai didn't seem to be.
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by tyfon on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:57AM (#24329340)
Youtube and twitch (which I belive use akamai?) was down for me in Norway.

I think there were many routes going haywire and it was different depending on your location.

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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by tambre on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:28AM (#24329738)
Youtube is Google's own global CDN, Twitch is Fastly.
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by cbg0 on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:01AM (#24330156)
Only the main twitch site seems to be using fastly, the streams are powered by AWS' infrastructure as far as I can tell, which would be expected, seeing as how Amazon owns Twitch.
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by tyfon on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:08AM (#24330193)
Oddly enough the user interface worked somewhat, it was the streams themselves that failed to load for me (even with mpv+youtube-dl)
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by nik736 on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:12AM (#24329399)
Twitch is not using Akamai.
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by kraftomatic on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:23AM (#24329448)
ISPs often have Youtube and Akamai caches forward deployed to their networks, which would reduce the dependancy on big ISPs. Google also buys a lot of its own international links so it can pair directly with or close to ISPs, so big ISP issues don't affect their services as much.
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by RealStickman_ on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:19AM (#24329430)
Youtube definitely had problems for me. (Through Mullvad VPN in Switzerland)
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