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10-20 minute router misconfigurations and subsequent fixes are sometimes a fact of life. big network infrastructure is complicated, and sometimes the best laid
by fivre 6y ago
10-20 minute router misconfigurations and subsequent fixes are sometimes a fact of life. big network infrastructure is complicated, and sometimes the best laid route tables of mice and men do go abloop and die.
Outages happen no matter what the infrastructure is. There's no solution, they're just something you need to recognize and handle, which Cloudflare seemingly did relatively quickly here.
- lima 6y agoYes, but other providers are not a single point of failure for a significant percentage of the internet. Level 3 or Telia going offline is perfectly survivable for any customer who has multiple upstreams.
- Kalium 6y agoRemember the big Dyn outage? Or when AWS-US-East was severely disrupted by a hurricane? It may perhaps be an exaggeration to say that there are not other providers that are similarly critical for a significant percentage of the internet.
- iso947 6y agoThink Back to the 80s. Imagine you’re watching the super bowl. Imagine it goes off for 15 minutes.