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Forums › New Zealand Broadband › News, Trade Me and other sites outages - is this a Bigpipe cache problem?
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#287136 8-Jun-2021 22:10
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A few different sites tonight are giving me a Varnish cache server error as below in Wellington tonight:   (eg. theguardian.com, reddit.com)

 

I'm not seeing anything on the status page for Bigpipe or Spark, but is this an ISP caching problem?

 

Error 503 Service Unavailable

 

Service Unavailable

 

Guru Mediation:

 

Details: cache-wlg10426-WLG 1623146884 1125490805

 

Varnish cache server

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  #2720940 8-Jun-2021 22:11
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What service are you on?

 

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  #2720941 8-Jun-2021 22:13
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I’m getting the same problem on Spark (Fibre in Whanganui).

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  #2720942 8-Jun-2021 22:13
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Bigpipe if that's what you mean by service?

 

 



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  #2720943 8-Jun-2021 22:13
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Are you on a 100mbps fibre service?

 

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  #2720945 8-Jun-2021 22:14
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I think you will find it's a CDN problem.




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  #2720946 8-Jun-2021 22:14
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It seems like Fastly (a CDN) is having issues at the moment - I’m seeing similar issues with major sites on other ISPs.

 

Edit: Yep - https://status.fastly.com/

 
 
 
 

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  #2720948 8-Jun-2021 22:15
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Seem to be having the same issues in Auckland as well but not on spark or bigpipe. 

 

 

 

 

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  #2720950 8-Jun-2021 22:16
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Yes, I can confirm a third party CDN vendor issue is affecting a number of websites.... I am SURE they know but I am pinging them.

 

 

 

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  #2720951 8-Jun-2021 22:17
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Moved to generic New Zealand broadband as this seems to a CDN (Fastly) problem and affecting many ISPs.




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  #2720952 8-Jun-2021 22:18
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Thanks - I wasn't sure at what level the problem was, and Bigpipe support probably won't see my query until tomorrow. If it's the CDN acting up then I'm sure a tech somewhere is frantically trying to get things working again!

 

 

 

 

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  #2720953 8-Jun-2021 22:18
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Also impacting me on Vodafone Fibre (Kapiti).

 
 
 
 

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  #2720954 8-Jun-2021 22:18
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Same issue with reddit and stuff, both utilise fastly afaik

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  #2720956 8-Jun-2021 22:21
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Trademe and RNZ both down with the same error - curiously it provides "Guru Mediation" instead of "Guru Meditation". Maybe the gurus have been fighting?

 

 

 

Must be a shared data centre or CDN for both Trademe and RNZ to go down together (though RNZ continued working for a few minutes longer after trademe went down)

 

 

 

Error 503 Service Unavailable

 

Service Unavailable

 

Guru Mediation:

 

Details: cache-akl10326-AKL 1623147384 1052598505

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  #2720959 8-Jun-2021 22:23
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Seems like half the internet must use Fastly.




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  #2720962 8-Jun-2021 22:25
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https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

 

 

 

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