I don’t have easy access to very much high level, non-public network data and information outside my organization. But, based on what I can see, it sure looks like at least one piece of the US fiber backbone has gone kaput.
I decided our small organization would react as if this were true. But, we really don’t know and haven’t had time to figure it out, yet.
The worst case scenario for regular people is that their shift gets cut today, possibly also tomorrow, because their assigned computer is fucked.
My place took a hit from this but it seems to be more to do with crowdstrike. They issued an update which caused machines to into reboot loops, requiring manual intervention. My assumption was microsoft uses crowdstrike internally and also took a hit
Not arguing root cause. And, not sure how WinOS rigs would take down a piece of backbone unless someone fucked up really bad.
We’re pushing a lot of traffic for research and analysis. Can’t go Chicago west. Routing is fucked. For those sessions, we’re starting on whatever network looks best at the moment and are auto restarting upon degradation detection.
Article has been updated with the root cause - Crowdstrike. The reason is simple: Azure has tons of Windows systems that are protected with CrowdStrike Falcon. Crowdstrke released a bad version that is causing boot loops on Windows computers, including Windows VM servers.
At a shallow glance of very limited data not collected for this purpose, it looks like we’ve a tier 1 failure maybe Chicago westbound.
I don’t have enough topical information or expertise to have a discussion about causality or truth. This is not the right venue and I’d just be an observer to whatever conversation was taking place there.
Microsoft, Azure, and Crowdstrike have all stated the root cause at this point. Furthermore, this tells me most of the Falcon sensor installs are done bad, as we also use Crowdstrke and have ours set to “latest version - 1” to ensure this exact thing doesn’t happen.
Cool. But, routers don’t run MS and neither does my organization sitting on either side of the connection. So, right now I don’t give a flying fuck about what what some assholes did to Windows or the root cause. I want my throughput west back on primary so I can keep my hoppers full. Right now it looks like some other assholes fucked up tier 1.
There aren’t any backbone outages right now that are being discussed. Many servers that run MANY services are on Windows, using Crowdstrike. Flights, banks, entertainment (some Netflix, for example).
The overall result: it looks like a backbone outage, but isn’t.
No idea why someone downvoted you for this!
Absolutely, we are entirely unsure of real root cause too (until microsoft releases an explanation).
We have pretty simple networking, but for a while internal vnet communication was really all over the place. That seems to have stabilised for us recently
(UK south / west regions)
Though I started it we’ve better venues for the nuance. People here want to know how it’ll effect their lives.
If your shift isn’t getting cut because a computer is broken then you’re fine.
No idea why someone downvoted you for this!
I’m either somewhat sociopathic or ahead of the pack in understanding and committing to the endeavor of social change in the United States. I sometimes get followed around and my posts down voted randomly.
… If your shift isnt getting cut …
Exactly! We made sure to contact everyone who would travel to an office to inform them its at least a half day off and to check in at lunch time. Email everyone WFH the same thing, SMS too just in case their computer is down.
But I (I assume you are in the same boat) was up much earlier to tackle this! Fun day.
I’ve got easy mode: On-call woke me up. We’re five techies and equity holders with one employee, an intern. We pushed a few buttons to effect plan B and enable plan C, and sent a medium priority notification by chat.
Then, we sent the intern to the office to watch the meters. If she fucks up it’s not a problem until about Tuesday. So, we’re waiting to see if she automates the task, uses the existing routing template to ensure she’s notified of wonkiness if she leaves the office, and asks permission. She’s recreating the wheel and can then compare to our work. I thought I’d give her a couple hours before checking in.
