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)