GitHub is down • Hacker News Board

gondaloof wrote: post #6

Everything is down. How can this happen? Many of these services are unrelated, like even the brand-new Codespaces and Copilot are completely down. Do they all have a single point of failure? (Presumably the git server)

DNS. It's always DNS

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by mvanbaak » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:19 PM UTC

Their twitter account states that allnis back to normal

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by buildbot » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:19 PM UTC

irrational wrote: post #14

Huh, it is working for me. Is it region specific?

Status updated 1 minute ago saying resolved so maybe they fixed it?

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by brookst » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:20 PM UTC

gondaloof wrote: post #6

Everything is down. How can this happen? Many of these services are unrelated, like even the brand-new Codespaces and Copilot are completely down. Do they all have a single point of failure? (Presumably the git server)

DNS, BGP, PKI, probably other TLAs.