Is it really an internet wide outage? Only 2 of the points in the US are affected on https://www.whatsmydns.net/ for the domains we've got on Dyn - same for Twitter etc
"Widespread" might be a better term.
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#42Is it really an internet wide outage? Only 2 of the points in the US are affected on https://www.whatsmydns.net/ for the domains we've got on Dyn - same for Twitter etc
If it's under a denial-of-service it's possible that it may respond correctly part of the time.
Since many (all?) of Dyn's authoritative server IPs are anycast, attack traffic is probably not well distributed either. If you're routed to a server that's getting a lot of attack traffic, you're likely to have problems, but a server without much attack traffic will work fine.
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#43Almost every website I visit except HN seems to be down...
Same here, that's odd isn't it ;)
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#44I am confused. Are so many big websites using Dyn, or does Dyn have some special role in the DNS chain in the US?
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#45For me redirecting my DNS to Google public DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 did the trick.
Same story for me here today (reporting from Cork, Ireland)
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#48I am confused. Are so many big websites using Dyn, or does Dyn have some special role in the DNS chain in the US?
Dyn has no special role, they just provide DNS for a large number of high-traffic sites and services.
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#49We were affected @WSJ as well.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Build server (e.g. CircleCI, Travis, etc), reviewing/merging pull requests, accessing 3rd party library READMEs. You know, doing software stuff.
Most of this stuff you should have locally, and not depend on 3rd party websites.
I'm so damn tired of the "host it locally" mentality. Not everyone has the resources to host all of that locally.
For example, most open source projects.
But even outside of that, we use github for issue tracking, the new project management kanban stuff, a CI server, reading documentation (which is offline, but the online versions are nicer on the eyes), and a ton more. Not to mention that StackOverflow and other discussion forums tend to be used by many.
Yes you can host all of that locally, but we don't have a few hundred thousand a year to spend on some sysadmins to maintain all of that, and we don't have the time or money to run the machines, vet the software, and keep it up more reliably than github does for next to nothing.