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Anyone Noticed the Outage?

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic

Cloudflare radar shows 50% global traffic drop. Like, instantly, about UTC 02:00 8 Dec. Apparently, all continents affected. Downdetector.com has a spike on all graphs about the same time. The internet is pretty centralized these days, so a sudden 50% drop is explainable. Still, I see no commentary on the media.

( 6 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Anyone Noticed the Outage? by inemesitaffia on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:54AM (#42363381)
Any idea who went down? Might be a measurement probe outage
Re:Anyone Noticed the Outage? by truefossil on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:58AM (#42363400)
My bet is on a BGP glitch at the moment.
Re:Anyone Noticed the Outage? by truefossil on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:56AM (#42363393)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42362781

Nope, observed in different places. Was fixed in an hour or so, but it was something big.

Re:Anyone Noticed the Outage? by dunwaldo on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:16AM (#42363472)
with something that widespread perhaps auth?
Re:Anyone Noticed the Outage? by emot on Monday December 09, 2024 @09:57AM (#42366761)
that's a comparison in the previous week, when there was a clear spike in traffic — if you use the mouseover you'll see there's a reason for that spike.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic?dateRange=14d

Re:Anyone Noticed the Outage? by jgrahamc on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:27AM (#42367067)
Exactly. There was no outage.