A Service is only a description. The actual list of Pod addresses behind it is kept in separate objects called EndpointSlices, maintained by a controller in the control plane. kube-proxy and other components on every node watch EndpointSlices to know where to forward traffic. When a Service 'does not work', looking at its EndpointSlices is the fastest way to find out why.
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