Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our team is investigating

Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by x______________ on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:27PM (#44675664)

My money is on a misconfigured switch or hub that allowed a broadcast storm that shut down all of their edge devices!

Additional points for a user to cause the loop by plugging an rj-45 where they weren't supposed to, despite no warning or label telling them not to!

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by heraldgeezer on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:38PM (#44677161)

Are you saying they are one big L2 domain?

I love when devs talk about networking.

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by esseph on Thursday July 24, 2025 @07:30PM (#44677620)

They said "hub"

Heh.

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by zamadatix on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:39PM (#44675819)

I think the network putting out warning labels to prevent loops is probably worse off than the place that just forgot to leave some form of loop prevention enabled.

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by cyanydeez on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:29PM (#44675704)

...in space?

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by _verandaguy on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:39PM (#44675812)

Cat 9 cables are rated for low crosstalk links in LEO, though I'm not sure how Starlink solved the problem where the cable would tend to wind around the earth because of the speed difference between LEO and the Earth's rotation.

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Re:Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our ... by saltcured on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:55PM (#44678241)

Well, obviously the sats have to juggle cables. Only connect to one for a little bit and then toss it to the next in the train...

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