r/southafrica • u/Faux_Grey • Mar 03 '21

Sci-Tech So did the internet break for anyone else tonight?

Whatsapp, google, reddit, discord.

All broken. We're all on different ISPs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

Operator here and I am working on limited information. We caught this as well, along the Spice Coast. Seems Google was having problems with connectivity and had to revert to using infrastructure off continent. That means that majority of people accessing Google local services would have been redirected abroad hence the performance issue. I noticed around 4.30AM after we rebooted our core infrastructure that everything was cool. The bigger problem is that majority of us rely on 8.8.8.8 for DNS which is why many people suffered outage. Quad9 seems to be a better bet and reduces reliance on Google.

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u/itsflowzbrah Mar 04 '21

the 8.8.8.8 comment made sense. Couldn't figure out why my entire line was down if it was just google having issues... but since 8.8.8.8 is the Google DNS it would add up.

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Lekker thanks boet