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"We enjoyed seeing some of our most dedicated players figure out our DNS steering scheme and start exchanging this information on Twitter so that they could get

"We enjoyed seeing some of our most dedicated players figure out our DNS steering scheme and start exchanging this information on Twitter so that they could get “early” access as we brought the service back up." Why do I have a feeling "enjoyed" wasn't really enjoyed so much as "WTF", followed by "oh shit..." at the thought that their main way to balance load may have gone out the window.

Symbiote 5y ago
It's difficult to know how quickly word could have spread, but I enjoy knowing a few 11 year olds learned something about the Internet in order to play a game an hour early.
- Twirrim 5y ago
  With social media etc, I can see it spreading really fast. That would be my bigger fear trying to get a service back up from a very long outage like that.
deathanatos 5y ago
At their scale, it was probably an insignificant minority. I read that as nothing more than a wink and nod of "we see what you did ;)" ; which I appreciate. Some companies would have a fit and go nuclear on people for that, for no particular reason. As long as it is an insignificant minority, it doesn't matter, and ideally it's teenagers learning how something works on the side, and that helped grow some future hacker (in the HN sense) somewhere.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
  > Some companies would have a fit and go nuclear on people for that, for no particular reason Sometimes it's even the Missouri state governor doing that too.
fragmede 5y ago
The intentionally slow bringup is to handle the thundering herd of having the system come back online to 100% at once. If a couple hundred users (small percentage of userbase) here or there are able to jump to queue, it's no real big deal. As far as players figuring out the DNS steering scheme; the company has no responsibility to keep a non-advertised backend up. If it was a problem, disallow new connection to it and remove it from the main pool.
selectodude 5y ago
I think it mostly consisted of "KEEP PRESSING REFRESH AND YOU'LL GET LET IN AT SOME POINT" so there wasn't any additional unplanned load for Roblox.
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buryat 5y ago
enjoyed as in having dedicated fans that would go through hops to have access

Symbiote 5y ago

It's difficult to know how quickly word could have spread, but I enjoy knowing a few 11 year olds learned something about the Internet in order to play a game an hour early.

Twirrim 5y ago
With social media etc, I can see it spreading really fast. That would be my bigger fear trying to get a service back up from a very long outage like that.

deathanatos 5y ago

At their scale, it was probably an insignificant minority. I read that as nothing more than a wink and nod of "we see what you did ;)" ; which I appreciate. Some companies would have a fit and go nuclear on people for that, for no particular reason. As long as it is an insignificant minority, it doesn't matter, and ideally it's teenagers learning how something works on the side, and that helped grow some future hacker (in the HN sense) somewhere.

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
> Some companies would have a fit and go nuclear on people for that, for no particular reason Sometimes it's even the Missouri state governor doing that too.

fragmede 5y ago

The intentionally slow bringup is to handle the thundering herd of having the system come back online to 100% at once. If a couple hundred users (small percentage of userbase) here or there are able to jump to queue, it's no real big deal. As far as players figuring out the DNS steering scheme; the company has no responsibility to keep a non-advertised backend up. If it was a problem, disallow new connection to it and remove it from the main pool.

selectodude 5y ago

I think it mostly consisted of "KEEP PRESSING REFRESH AND YOU'LL GET LET IN AT SOME POINT" so there wasn't any additional unplanned load for Roblox.

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buryat 5y ago

enjoyed as in having dedicated fans that would go through hops to have access