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Is anyone else seeing knock-on effects at the other major public DNS providers? I'm seeing nslookups sent to 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 intermittently timeout if the h
by EB66 5y ago
Is anyone else seeing knock-on effects at the other major public DNS providers? I'm seeing nslookups sent to 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 intermittently timeout if the hostname does not belong to a major website. CloudFlare DNS (1.1.1.1) doesn't appear to be impacted. For example:
[root@app ~]# nslookup downforeveryoneorjustme.com 4.2.2.2
;; connection timed out; trying next origin
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[root@app ~]# nslookup downforeveryoneorjustme.com 1.1.1.1
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Address: 172.67.166.187
Name: downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Address: 104.21.91.48
[root@app ~]#
Perhaps DNS queries are skyrocketing and overwhelming some of the major public DNS servers.
- uo21tp5hoyg 5y agoYeah Cloudflare have said they're being flooded with Facebook DNS retries and had to get extra hands on deck to deal with the influx.
- rstupek 5y agoYes same issue for me with 8.8.8.8, errors for everything but big domains.
- pixxel 5y agoNo idea if it’s related but a lot of Tor websites have also been offline all day (BBC, ProtonMail etc).
- r721 5y agoSee this thread (with replies): >Now, here's the fun part. @Cloudflare runs a free DNS resolver, 1.1.1.1, and lots of people use it. So Facebook etc. are down... guess what happens? People keep retrying. Software keeps retrying. We get hit by a massive flood of DNS traffic asking for http://facebook.com http://facebook.com https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445066136547217413 https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445066136547217413 >Our small non profit also sees a huge spike in DNS traffic. It’s really insane. https://twitter.com/awlnx/status/1445072441886265355 https://twitter.com/awlnx/status/1445072441886265355 >This is frontend DNS stats from one of the smaller ISPs I operate. DNS traffic has almost doubled. https://twitter.com/TheodoreBaschak/status/1445073229970763781 https://twitter.com/TheodoreBaschak/status/14450732299707637...