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Just came back online for me. How is it even possible for this (global blackout) to happen when the entire operation is highly distributed, both geographically
by eknkc 13y ago
Just came back online for me.
How is it even possible for this (global blackout) to happen when the entire operation is highly distributed, both geographically and techically? I mean, even implementing a "red button to shut everything off intentionally" would be hard.
- dylz 13y agoIt is distributed -- google.com doesn't work for me in SF, but VPN to UK works fine.
- ukandy 13y agoIt's been down in the UK too.
- flyt 13y agoHonestly? Shit happens. we get better over time, but sometimes things just break in unexpected ways, or people make mistakes.
- eknkc 13y agoYou are right but that explains why part. I'm not sure how I would do this even if I wanted to. Config update error sounds like a good explanation but everything (mail, news etc) went down simulatenously and globally. Might be a global load balancer / routing configuration error though. I'm also curious about the people involved. I mean, when I break something when say a couple hundred of people are online on our website, I panic a little. If I break Google, that'd cause a heart attack.
- coops 13y agomost google search outages at this point are the result of some kind of bad configuration push.
- greenJolly 13y agoDNS?
- eknkc 13y agoI believe that should not cause a simultaneous problem like this, given all the caching layers involved.
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- ipostonthisacc 13y agoit wasn't down in europe