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Re: Github.com is down

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Post by Dirlewanger »

negrit wrote: post #2

How is this an interesting news ? Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status ( https://status.github.com/messages ) would be relevant in that case. not just some link to a third party telling us it's down. Yeah thank you. I could have notice it on my own....

It's not, really. But I assume a good number of us have jobs that depend on it, and out of the big sites out there they are out quite frequent. And then like past threads this one will fill up with people proclaiming they're done with Github and having enough of their shit and looking for alternatives...

Re: Github.com is down

#12

Post by negrit »

RutZap wrote: post #5
negrit wrote: post #2

How is this an interesting news ? Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status ( https://status.github.com/messages ) would be relevant in that case. not just some link to a third party telling us it's down. Yeah thank you. I could have notice it on my own....

Probably because they said they are under a large ddos attack? :-? I wonder why would someone do something like this? It's not like github is evil or anything... it's just a really cool and useful tool for coders. It helped a lot of people better their skills and knowledge. Why would someone attack it? (I am genuinely interested in this as I can't think of a reason someone would do something like this)

No they dont. The link just says, github is down, nothing else, an interesting news would be a link to the twitter post.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by hbz »

Right in the middle of a deploy for us! Thankfully we're getting enterprise so hopefully this is last time a DDoS messes with our productivity.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by barrkel »

negrit wrote: post #12
RutZap wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because they said they are under a large ddos attack? :-? I wonder why would someone do something like this? It's not like github is evil or anything... it's just a really cool and useful tool for coders. It helped a lot of people better their skills and knowledge. Why would someone attack it? (I am genuinely interested in this as I can't think of a reason someone would do something like this)

No they dont. The link just says, github is down, nothing else, an interesting news would be a link to the twitter post.

https://status.github.com/messages

Re: Github.com is down

#15

Post by filip01 »

Wouldn't it be a good idea for Github to set up a video + sound stream from their office when these things occur? I for one would watch. Can't really work anyway (at least that's what I persuade myself to think).

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by sspiff »

harrytuttle wrote: post #10
negrit wrote: post #2

How is this an interesting news ? Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status ( https://status.github.com/messages ) would be relevant in that case. not just some link to a third party telling us it's down. Yeah thank you. I could have notice it on my own....

Because tragically, most people have all their eggs in one github shaped basket. Git on it's own doesn't suffer from the issue of scary downtime (occasionally repo corruption...), but people have bought deeply into the value-added ecosystem that github throws over the top of it. It's a show-stopper for them.

I have some of my code on GitHub and some on Bitbucket (for the free private repos), all of my code on my Dropbox and it's synced to 4 different machines.

However, the library I'm working with is hosted on GitHub, their doxygen is on GitHub, their wiki is on GitHub, and I don't have a local version of either of those, which is now pretty annoying.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by boothead »

jakub_g wrote: post #7

https://status.github.com/messages is a better place to keep up with news like that.

My intuition would be that status.service.com is not a useful place to look if service.com is down...

edit that's not supposed to be as snarkey as it sounds reading it back :-)

edit again The reason for this intuition is that I assume that not being able to reach service.com could indicate a DNS problem. Possibly from the comments below I need to go and read a DNS book :-)

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by jamesroseman »

Where are these attacks coming from? Or is it just failure to keep up with increased client traffic?

I've noticed recently how frequently there are service issues with Github, many times service has been disrupted because of DDoS attacks and similar malicious activity.

Re: Github.com is down

#20

Post by maaaats »

boothead wrote: post #17
jakub_g wrote: post #7

https://status.github.com/messages is a better place to keep up with news like that.

My intuition would be that status.service.com is not a useful place to look if service.com is down... edit that's not supposed to be as snarkey as it sounds reading it back :-) edit again The reason for this intuition is that I assume that not being able to reach service.com could indicate a DNS problem. Possibly from the comments below I need to go and read a DNS book :-)

My intuition is that it is. I didn't know github was really down, but had problem accessing it. Went to status.github.com and got the results, not really knowing if the address existed or not (just guessed).

These sites are often hosted away from the main service, and thus available even when problems occur.

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