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They built their own custom DNS server? Most of the failures that people encountered were a failure to contact the nameserver itself. Perhaps in the rush to try
by ergo98 16y ago
They built their own custom DNS server? Most of the failures that people encountered were a failure to contact the nameserver itself. Perhaps in the rush to try to fix it someone screwed up that as well.
- brown9-2 16y agoPerhaps the DNS issue was their way of shutting off the site.
- mbreese 16y agoIt seems like that was their attempt to "shutdown" the site. It's a pretty effective way too... The easiest way to stop the stampede was to drop off the net completely. By tweaking their dns, they were able to give themelves enough room to breathe. Then they could slowly start to bring people back. That's just a guess. But from their post, it seems reasonable.
- dangrossman 16y agoOr maybe disabling DNS was how they purposely took down the site, then slowly let people back in, as they said.
- ergo98 16y agoDNS was never mentioned in that post. Further it's a curious way of controlling flow, though I suppose in a moment of panic...if nothing else works...
- schrep 16y agoThis was a result of us throttling traffic to the site - not the original outage.