[Outages-discussion] [outages] ipv6.netflix.com and www.ipv6.cisco.com down

[Owen DeLong]

Shame on you Netflix...

Apparently they resolved the infinite recursion loop by simply redirecting
to their IPv4-only name.

This is a giant step backwards for Netflix.

Owen

On May 1, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:

> Interesting.  If I hit it from a web browser it works, but from NAGIOS it
> fails.
> 
> nagios:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins# ./check_http -6 -H ipv6.netflix.com -f
> follow
> Name or service not known
> HTTP CRITICAL - Unable to open TCP socket
> nagios:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins#
> nagios:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins# ./check_http -6 -H ipv6.cnn.com -f follow
> HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 102475 bytes in 1.707 second response time
> |time=1.707327s;;;0.000000 size=102475B;;;0
> nagios:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins#
> 
> I added in the "-f follow" last week.  I know that ipv6.netflix.com
> redirects to a v4-only site and this must cause that v6-specified check to
> fail.  I will need to make a separate http check for such sites.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majdi S. Abbas [mailto:msa at latt.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 3:13 PM
> To: Frank Bulk
> Cc: outages-discussion at outages.org
> Subject: Re: [outages] ipv6.netflix.com and www.ipv6.cisco.com down
> 
> On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:01:54PM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
>> Minor on the grand scale of things, but ipv6.netflix.com has been down
> since
>> Tuesday, 6:25 pm (Central) and www.ipv6.cisco.com since Saturday 10:50 am
>> (Central).
> 
>    Funny, I can reach ipv6.netflix.com just fine from 2914:
> 
> -snip-
> 3  ae-1.r06.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net  37.971 ms  34.733 ms  34.014 ms
> 4  2001:590:2:2b::1  53.566 ms  67.476 ms  60.543 ms
> 5  ae0-70g.cr1.sjc1.us.nlayer.net  36.525 ms  81.402 ms  36.028 ms
> 6  edge01.sv1.netflix.com  38.038 ms  34.834 ms  35.979 ms
> 7  ipv6.netflix.com  45.034 ms  36.304 ms  36.940 ms
> -snip-
> 
>    And yes, the page loads.  Say, http://ipv6.netflix.com/WiHome
> for example.
> 
>> Of the roughly 15 IPv6 websites I monitor, ipv6.cogentco.com has had the
>> greatest uptime over the last 31 days (100%), followed by ipv6.google.com.
> 
>    Where are you monitoring from?  
> 
>> Please direct any comments to outages-discussion.
> 
>    Can you expand on your methodology?
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>    --msa
> 
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