really weird thing just happened: the internet at this cafe wouldn't load a number of different instances of mastodon: this one, autonomous.zone, sunbeam.city but it loaded merveilles.town and mastodon.social just fine. the error was something about io timeout but it wasn't an error I had seen before. anyone know what this might have been from? (seems to all be fine now but I would like to understand what was causing this for future me)
ok this is post solves the mystery
https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/109030885323541225
OVH was down!
cc'ing @zens@merveilles.town @thor who answered with ideas of what it might be.
I can only add more weirdness: This site sometimes does not load on some German ICE (express) trains. And it is very slow on Deutsche Telekom and certain fibre networks.
@liaizon Perhaps they were using some sort of DNS filtering to block your requests from going through.
@pjd3 I posted an update in the responses to this post but it turned out OVH had 5 minutes of downtime and all of the ones I checked used OVH and affiliates for hosting.
@liaizon good to know, thank you for sharing.