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Perhaps you're unaware that billions of devices attempting to resolve Facebook's unresolvable domains effectively DDOS-ed the DNS system? It most certainly did
by dTal 5y ago
Perhaps you're unaware that billions of devices attempting to resolve Facebook's unresolvable domains effectively DDOS-ed the DNS system? It most certainly did slow down big chunks of internet which otherwise had nothing to do with Facebook.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22709123/facebook-outage-down-detector-cloudflare https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22709123/facebook-outage-...
- oarsinsync 5y ago> Some applications may have seen increased load and suffered due to server resourcing constraints, caused by applications like the above failing to fail gracefully, and instead polling more aggressively. I had Cloudflare's woes in mind when I wrote that.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoSo your point is that it didn't slow down the entire Internet, only the parts of the Internet that use DNS (damn near all of them)?
- oarsinsync 5y agoBased on cloudflare's own blog[0], 1% of queries went unanswered for about 10 mins, and were significantly delayed for a few hours. 5% of queries were delayed for a couple of hours. 95% of queries continued to be resolved as normal. This is referring explicitly to users of 1.1.1.1, which is likely not the same infrastructure as domains hosted by cloudflare dns. [0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/