[154341] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI Netflix is down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Downs)
Mon Jul 2 15:09:14 2012
From: James Downs <egon@egon.cc>
In-Reply-To: <4FF1EFAD.6000204@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 12:08:18 -0700
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Paul Graydon wrote:
> back-plane / control-plane was unable to cope with the requests. =
Netflix uses Amazon's ELB to balance the traffic and no back-plane meant =
they were unable to reconfigure it to route around the problem.
Someone needs to define back-plane/control-plane in this case. (and what =
wasn't working)
During the height of the problems, what I saw was a Netflix A record =
pointing at a broken ELB. If there was an ELB to point to in another AZ, =
it wouldn't take anything from Amazon to change that A record, as =
Netflix uses ultradns.
-j=
