hrm looks like my home internet connection is having some issues
mastodon is still reachable though :D
oof heavy packet loss on some paths
someone in a IRC channel I'm in is mentioning that it is a Level3 (transit provider) issue, which would explain why I'm only seeing it in certain paths
*checks the outages mailing list*
well the Comcast issue that @alyx@witches.town just mentioned has a thread
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2017-November/010891.html
I suspect it's not just Comcast having issues though
so it's basically confirmed at this point that it's a Level3 transport issue
the reason I can still use my Mastodon instances is because it's going over IPv6 which is going over the HE BGP tunnel which is taking a HE path
so a theory from Job Snijders as to what happened:
"These more-specifics win over less-specifics, so the world's traffic to comcast
may now be flowing through level3, and maybe there is not sufficient bandwidth
capacity available on those Level3<>Regional_Comcast interconnections."
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2017-November/010947.html
(it is resolved now as @alyx@witches.town just mentioned)
so yeah BGPMon confirmed it:
"BGP routing issues between @Level3 and @comcastcares caused large scale network service degradation in North America between 17:50-19:20 UTC"
*wonders if the folks over at BGPMon can confirm that theory*