Netflix Goes Down, People Freak Out and Discover Real Life

Facing issues with Netflix? You're not alone. Beginning at 3pm ET, users worldwide started to report connectivity issues with the on-demand movie and TV shows streaming service. Downdetector, a website which monitors outage also confirmed the outage with more than 7,000 user complaints. Netflix confirmed the outage in a tweet a few minutes ago, saying it was "aware of streaming issues and we are working quickly to solve them. We will update you when they are solved." Though the company hasn't offered an explanation for this outage, its servers could be seeing an unusual spike in traffic from people trying to binge watch Luke Cage, which was made available this weekend.

Anyone here uses Netflix and facing the issue too?

Comments

Couldn't reach Google, either.

[dgatwood]

I was in the middle of debugging a problem caused by Comcast switching from non-static IPv6 addresses to static IPv6 addresses (causing me to get a new set of IPv6 addresses and breaking my in-home DNS because my Airport Extreme was looking for my DNS servers at the old address), so I noticed the Netflix outage, but I also noticed that I was unable to reach Google.com at the same time. I didn't bother to use traceroute to track down the problem because it went away by the time I finished disabling the AAAA records for all my domains....

Then I read this story, and sure enough, Google showed a huge spike in outage reports at exactly the same time as Netflix. Unless Netflix uses the Google cloud for hosting (AFAIK, they use AWS, not Google), I'd imagine that this outage involved some sort of Akamai DNS problem or network routing problem or something else not specific to Netflix.

Re:That headline...

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

So who's acting that way?

The user named "Grim Beefer", to whom I was replying, that's who. And I'm sure there are plenty of others (or do you think he was the only one having a hissy fit about Netflix being down?).

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Or are you simply trying to set up a strawman to distract from Netflix's failure to deliver what its customers pay it for?

If this happened all the time or even frequently then I'd say you'd have a perfectly valid good reason to whine, but Netfix in general seems to be very reliable overall. Yes, of course people should get what they pay for, but as I said earlier, "Get a grip, nothing works 100% of the time". Netflix, the Holy Portal of Content (blessed be its name) is no fucking different. This isn't like they're cutting off your insulin or oxygen, it just means you won't be able to jerk off to Luke Cage or Stranger Things for an hour or so.

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Those are mighty words for someone spending their weekend whining about other people on Slashdot.

Lol, I'm more-or-less retired so by law I can whine about whatever I want, whenever I want. Yeah- while you're getting up and slogging your way into your lame-ass monkey job, I'm sleeping in. When you're having the life sucked out of you in a pointless, soul-crushing meeting, I'm having a sandwich or doing one of my hobbies or reading a book or taking a walk or writing or coding or shopping or visiting friends or whatever the fuck I wanna do, and that includes whining if I feel like it. :)

So na na boo boo, honey buns.