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What could possibly cause this kind of outage? Loss of a datacenter? Physical problem? How can a "DNS" problem (or something similar) be this widescale?
by MuffinFlavored 2y ago
What could possibly cause this kind of outage? Loss of a datacenter? Physical problem?
How can a "DNS" problem (or something similar) be this widescale?
- BandButcher 2y agoI remember something with facebook? where their internal DNS was misconfigured. edit: "This change caused a complete disconnection of our server connections between our data centers and the internet. And that total loss of connection caused a second issue that made things worse. " https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/ https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out... https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/facebook-outage-analysis https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/facebook-outage-analysis Not sure if MS is going through the same issue but DNS could be a reason why
- red-iron-pine 2y agoIt's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS
- barkingcat 2y agoDNS is definitely capable of widescale disruption. A dns error can take down the entire internet.