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> The number of things I can think of that so many different services & are not a massively catastrophic failure is pretty small. Like, for instance, a simple
by krn 4y ago
> The number of things I can think of that so many different services & are not a massively catastrophic failure is pretty small.
Like, for instance, a simple DNS or BGP misconfiguration that takes the entire network down?
Cloudflare (June 2022):
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OVH (October 2021):
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Facebook (October 2021):
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Google (June 2019):
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- 29083011397778 4y agoWe don't know for certain, but you may have missed Rogers [0] - which brought down cell phones (every function but wifi), debit transactions, and 911 services. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_outage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_o...
- tick_tock_tick 4y agoNo ones it too big to not fuck up BGP or DNS from time to time.