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Re: GitHub is down

#21

Post by no_wizard »

andrewfromx wrote: post #10
roughly wrote: post #4

Hearts out to all the GitHub SREs who get to fix this, and all the SREs at GitHub’s customers who get to spend the next week convincing management and their peers that moving git in house won’t result in fewer outages.

so true. At this moment everyone's like, well! This is UNACCEPTABLE. We'll just, we'll just... what, what are you going to do better than github?

I always wondered if some % of GitHub orgs move to Gitlab when this happens.

I'd be interested to see if there is any correlation there.

Re: GitHub is down

#22

Post by gnarbarian »

andrewfromx wrote: post #10
roughly wrote: post #4

Hearts out to all the GitHub SREs who get to fix this, and all the SREs at GitHub’s customers who get to spend the next week convincing management and their peers that moving git in house won’t result in fewer outages.

so true. At this moment everyone's like, well! This is UNACCEPTABLE. We'll just, we'll just... what, what are you going to do better than github?

there's always gitlab

Re: GitHub is down

#24

Post by capableweb »

zackkitzmiller wrote: post #17
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

When in doubt, and the outage is widespread it's either DNS or BGP, most likely DNS. My money is also on DNS in this case.

Re: GitHub is down

#25

Post by hombre_fatal »

edgyquant wrote: post #7

Wonder why mine[1] got marked as a duplicate when it was posted first? 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35817640

Maybe because they linked to the incident instead of just the domain homepage that other people tried to post.

Re: GitHub is down

#27

Post by andrewfromx »

belter wrote: post #15
bityard wrote: post #5

I sense a disturbance in the force...

you mean... I sense a disturbance in the source...

The Source is what gives a hacker his power. It's an energy field created by all coded things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

Re: GitHub is down

#28

Post by shagie »

itsbenweeks wrote: post #13
ehayes wrote: post #3

Hmm, will it turn out to be DNS?

I'm guessing so, given the breadth of the outage. (It's always dns.)

In the various tools for determining blame:

https://isitdns.com

https://shouldiblamecaching.com

https://bofh.d00t.org

nc bofh.jeffballard.us 666 # I am surprised this is still working given its age; the CGI version at https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/ doesn't work anymore (but the page is still up)

Re: GitHub is down

#29

Post by robopsychology »

andrewfromx wrote: post #10
roughly wrote: post #4

Hearts out to all the GitHub SREs who get to fix this, and all the SREs at GitHub’s customers who get to spend the next week convincing management and their peers that moving git in house won’t result in fewer outages.

so true. At this moment everyone's like, well! This is UNACCEPTABLE. We'll just, we'll just... what, what are you going to do better than github?

We self-host Gitlab and haven't had an unplanned outage in a year since I joined.

Re: GitHub is down

#30

Post by slg »

no_wizard wrote: post #21
andrewfromx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so true. At this moment everyone's like, well! This is UNACCEPTABLE. We'll just, we'll just... what, what are you going to do better than github?

I always wondered if some % of GitHub orgs move to Gitlab when this happens. I'd be interested to see if there is any correlation there.

Yeah, because Gitlab would never go down.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gitlab+down

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