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Is Heroku’s DNS down again?

53 points by ezekg 4y ago

Our production services just went down again due to DNS. Anybody else?

richardg 4y ago
yup - their site is down
jeff_dev 4y ago
Yes,it's down again
ezekg 4y ago
Seemed to be short lived for us. Total 5 mins downtime.
rohitpaulk 4y ago
Interestingly, one of our Vercel apps was down too (got alerts for both app.codecrafters.io and codecrafters.io at the same time) - might've been a wider DNS outage? Resolved in 4 minutes for us.
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- ezekg 4y ago
  Perhaps another NS1 outage? That’s what took down Heroku last time. Looks like it: https://ns1status.com/#!/incident/367771 https://ns1status.com/#!/incident/367771
  - rohitpaulk 4y ago
    Good find!
  - jesprenj 4y ago
    What's NS1? Is it related to the root zone hosting or is this just a company with a funny name?
    - Ayesh 4y ago
      They are a DNS hosting company that has been there for like, forever, since the days of zoneedit. Think AWS Route53, but run by a different company that only has that product. Clever name, "NS1", named after the ns1, ns2. etc domain names that are used for nameservers.
      - mattl 4y ago
        It feels confusing to everyone who isn’t a customer of them I think
      - iJohnDoe 4y ago
        Never heard of NS1, but if they are one of the veterans, then there should probably be concern on why they are having problems?
bennylope 4y ago
I noticed this trying to get to the Heroku homepage, then checking another couple Heroku hosted sites I know of. Neither this nor the prior DNS issue affected our applications using CloudFront however.
nbarbettini 4y ago
Now posted as an issue on status.heroku: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2454 https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2454
MuffinFlavored 4y ago
"they figured why give it away for free and pulled the plug" /s
drcongo 4y ago
We had a site on CloudFlare lose its DNS settings earlier, I seem to remember them emailing us about upgrading their DNS systems so maybe it's all related.
lsevero 4y ago
at this point it is better to move to a self-hosted dokku at once.
cercatrova 4y ago
At this point, why even use Heroku? I'd be looking to migrate away as fast as possible after all the recent events in the past few years.
- __pache__ 4y ago
  that's where my company is heading :( probably going to use render.com ... ugh, I don't want Heroku to fail.....

53 points by ezekg 4y ago

Our production services just went down again due to DNS. Anybody else?

richardg 4y ago

yup - their site is down

jeff_dev 4y ago

Yes,it's down again

ezekg 4y ago

Seemed to be short lived for us. Total 5 mins downtime.

rohitpaulk 4y ago

Interestingly, one of our Vercel apps was down too (got alerts for both app.codecrafters.io and codecrafters.io at the same time) - might've been a wider DNS outage? Resolved in 4 minutes for us.

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ezekg 4y ago
Perhaps another NS1 outage? That’s what took down Heroku last time. Looks like it: https://ns1status.com/#!/incident/367771 https://ns1status.com/#!/incident/367771
- rohitpaulk 4y ago
  Good find!
- jesprenj 4y ago
  What's NS1? Is it related to the root zone hosting or is this just a company with a funny name?
  - Ayesh 4y ago
    They are a DNS hosting company that has been there for like, forever, since the days of zoneedit. Think AWS Route53, but run by a different company that only has that product. Clever name, "NS1", named after the ns1, ns2. etc domain names that are used for nameservers.
    - mattl 4y ago
      It feels confusing to everyone who isn’t a customer of them I think
    - iJohnDoe 4y ago
      Never heard of NS1, but if they are one of the veterans, then there should probably be concern on why they are having problems?

bennylope 4y ago

I noticed this trying to get to the Heroku homepage, then checking another couple Heroku hosted sites I know of. Neither this nor the prior DNS issue affected our applications using CloudFront however.

nbarbettini 4y ago

Now posted as an issue on status.heroku: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2454 https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2454

MuffinFlavored 4y ago

"they figured why give it away for free and pulled the plug" /s

drcongo 4y ago

We had a site on CloudFlare lose its DNS settings earlier, I seem to remember them emailing us about upgrading their DNS systems so maybe it's all related.

lsevero 4y ago

at this point it is better to move to a self-hosted dokku at once.

cercatrova 4y ago

At this point, why even use Heroku? I'd be looking to migrate away as fast as possible after all the recent events in the past few years.

__pache__ 4y ago
that's where my company is heading :( probably going to use render.com ... ugh, I don't want Heroku to fail.....