Massive Dyn DNS outage

Post by exolymph » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

chromaton wrote: post #135

PayPal isn't working for me. Could cost a lot of people a lot of money.

Post by cynosurexy » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

jssjr wrote: post #85

I'm a GitHub employee and want to let everyone know we're aware of the problems this incident is causing and are actively working to mitigate the impact. "A global event is affecting an upstream DNS provider. GitHub services may be intermittently available at this time." is the content from our latest status update on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/789452827269664769 ). Reposted here since some peo…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 5:01 PM UTC

Post by sphinx65 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 5:04 PM UTC

6d6b73 wrote: post #32

All this talk about redundancy, real-time apps, scalable architecture and and a "simple" DDOS against DNS architecture brings half of the internet down. Honestly did nobody think about having a spare dns at some other company? or even backup dns server exactly for a situation like that?

Post by apmoore » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 5:06 PM UTC

grav wrote: post #147

apmoore wrote: post #145

In CA - Spotify starting going in and out around 9:15a, then completely shut down at 9:20a (no offline playlists were available). As of 9:49a my offline playlists are back up, but nothing else. Twitter was working from my mobile about 15 min ago, but not on my desktop. Now both are down. Can't believe Twitter is down. On my mobile I'm getting notifications, but can't view them. The people who are sending updates are…

I doubt that your offline playlists were affected ...