It's literally impossible to ddos attack a company such as apple. They are designed to have billions of devices connect every second. No way someone can amass enough attacking devices to stress the servers enough.
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Apple Card, Apple Pay, Maps and Messages Experiencing Outages [Updated]
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Errr... all its users just did.
Yes I am in Australia and everything seems to be working except for Big Sur update. I used Apple Pay this morning and iMessage is up and running.I posted on the Big Sur issues thread before this was posted -- For about 10 minutes I couldn't access my orders on the Store page, to check my tracking on my incoming iPhone 12PM. Was receiving a Gateway Timeout but it's since returned to normal.
May also be worth noting that the Apple Australia server status page is showing less issues.
Apple - Support - System Status
Status for all planned and unplanned events for Apple Services.www.apple.com
Imagine getting a cart load of groceries at a store that uses Apple Pay and having no other payment method on you
This is why I always bring my wallet with me, as much as I’d like to do without it sometimes.
I don't think you know what ddos is. It's not just stressing a server. I'm not saying they aren't down because they are stressed by users, but it's not an attack.
Airdrop has been an inexplicably unreliable mess within my household for years, so I don't personally recognize this as unusual.😐
I'm admittedly not that phased by Big Sur at this point, given only 1 of my Mac's can run it (2013 iMac too old for it)
Havne't had to use any other services this morning, other than updating apps on my iPhone which worked fine.
Come to think of it, this being an Apple-update kind of day and all, I was wondering why my iPhone apps showed no updates, even after refreshing.
So your positive experience notwithstanding, these outages might explain that for me.
Still, nobody need worry on my behalf... I think I'll probably survive this. But thank you all, in advance, for your concern.
Canyda said:
I legit think this knocked out my AirDrop, too, as it kept timing out on me between my work phone and personal phone more than an hour ago, and then about 15 minutes ago suddenly the AirDrop receiving pinged on my work phone.
Your note might be more relevant for Canyda.
But myself, I only got involved in this discussion to get in a gratuitous slap at Airdrop, which seemingly never works for me as it should.
Stupid Airdrop.
I legit think this knocked out my AirDrop, too, as it kept timing out on me between my work phone and personal phone more than an hour ago, and then about 15 minutes ago suddenly the AirDrop receiving pinged on my work phone.
Oh, I do know that.
Your note might be more relevant for Canyda.
But myself, I only got involved in this discussion to get in a gratuitous slap at Airdrop, which seemingly never works for me as it should.
Stupid Airdrop.
On the plus side you probably got home 50% faster from a better route.
Yeah, their status page is totally meaningless at this stage. They've lost all credibility.
Seems like there are restrictions (enforced on CDN) for networks in some regions. From Europe:
Code:
% curl -I http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/50/49/001-79699-A_93OMDU5KFG/dkjnjkq9eax1n2wpf8rik5agns2z43ikqu/InstallAssistant.pkg
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 406
Expires: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:17:42 GMT
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:17:42 GMT
X-Cache: TCP_DENIED from a23-62-99-79.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (AkamaiGHost/10.2.0.2-31441410) (-)
Connection: keep-aliveI'd like to trust the cards, but I have seen situations where Visa or Mastercard stopped working for a week in an entire region, so I wouldn't trust the plastic too much. Having at least one $50 bill (or equivalent) on you is not a bad idea. I don't even go running without a small bill, just in case.
There also countries that impose arbitrary limits on cards during the crisis, and I've seen ATMs running out of money during lockdown (while banks were closed). My habit of having at least ~$1000 stash of cash proved very useful more than once.
Of course it all depends where you live. But in general, it's smart to always have alternatives, especially on the road.
4:30 PST and I'm still unable to get the Big Sur update. Hours ago it got part way through the download but now consistently gives "Installation failed. An error occurred while installing the selected updates." Reboot doesn't help.
You may be right; several Euro nodes seem to be down.
UK here. Tried to return an item but the "Orders" sections on any of my devices simply refused to work this afternoon for over three hours!
Eventually worked after around 18:00 or so.
US - Central Time zone (Chicago area) and still getting the error before it even gets to a download.
The status page is lying, or Apple has no clue what is happening right now.
Technology happens. Downtime happens. Frustration happens. Getting my shorts in a knot happens .
But eventually, this will pass and we will be able to update out Macs with Big Sur goodness. Hopefully, it gets fixed before my MBA M1 arrives next week.
The status page is lying, or Apple has no clue what is happening right now.
Technology happens. Downtime happens. Frustration happens. Getting my shorts in a knot happens
.But eventually, this will pass and we will be able to update out Macs with Big Sur goodness. Hopefully, it gets fixed before my MBA M1 arrives next week.
Mine just finished downloading. Installing now. Took about 10 minutes to download. Hope I don't regret this.
Chicago. 2019 MacBook Pro 16"
Chicago. 2019 MacBook Pro 16"
I just got done downloading too on my
MacBook Pro 16"
iMac 2019
installing on both machines
I did run into an issue downloading where Safari 14.0.1 was trying to install at the same time. Once I installed the Safari update, then the Big Sur downloaded without any error.
MacBook Pro 16"
iMac 2019
installing on both machines
I did run into an issue downloading where Safari 14.0.1 was trying to install at the same time. Once I installed the Safari update, then the Big Sur downloaded without any error.