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Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by dylan604 »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #104
tyingq wrote: post #7

You can see this on a lot of sites right now. You get the Akamai style error with something like: Reference: #11.453a2f17.1393u44848484.3aee33433 At the bottom of a very bland looking error page.

You could argue Akamai is the blandest of the CDN bunch; their UIs are atrocious.

yeah, but only tech nerds see it, so it's okay. maybe it's a ploy to get the users to go to the real command set via CLI. make it so shitty nobody wants the UI, and goes back to the terminal. "if you're not a CLI ninja, then you shouldn't be using our product anyways!"

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by dylan604 »

space_ghost wrote: post #99
lowbloodsugar wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's frustrating is that DNS is returning an address, instead of just failing, and so macos is caching that value (though it might be cloudflare doing that).

Wildcard DNS should be a prosecutable crime, punishable by no less than 20 years of hard labor. (Edit: Probably should have made it clear that this was a joke)

When did congress members start posting to HN?

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by slim »

sebmellen wrote: post #91
katbyte wrote: post #46

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aren't short DNS TTLs great?

Is this a serious argument for long TTLs? Always wondered why they exist… How interesting.

Yes it is. The longer the TTL the longer you stay independent from third parties. It's what makes the internet stable.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by dylan604 »

mc32 wrote: post #102
sathackr wrote: post #59

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because the way downdetector works is it just basically counts how many people are searching/visiting for down and if it's much higher than typical it flags the site as down. So if everyone searched "is google down" and visited the link on downdetector that was returned in the search, that would add to the downdetector count for that site. Downdetector doesn't actually know if the site is up or down.

So how do they reset status? The number of queries going down signifies return to normal status?

Some CEO calls another CEO and makes a deal?

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by nexuist »

foobarbazetc wrote: post #114

Absolutely amazing how many billion $+ companies are single homed for DNS. I wonder how much they spend on multi-AZ redundant architectures...

Might be survivorship bias. Multi-AZ arch protects against all other failures, so the only one that remains visible to the outside world is DNS.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by macintux »

decrypt wrote: post #120
benburleson wrote: post #62

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Yeah, my path was LastPass -> Bitwarden -> 1Password. Both Bitwarden and 1Password are great.

Same path. It'll be very hard to move away from 1Password. App experience, sync, security features like key in addition to master password, family organizer-based recovery of an account, these are a few things that stand out.

Yeah, I use 1Password for every critical bit of information (SSN numbers, physical access codes) and a whole lot of less-critical stuff. I expect to be a customer for life.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #137
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #35

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It's interesting that they report an AWS outage but there don't seem to be any issues there. Looks like their methodology is a bit too reliant on those speculative tweets from the first 5 minutes of all these sites going down. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ > So many websites are down, are AWS servers down or something? > Amazon web services is down which is affecting a lot of company web si…

It’s just based on user reports, so this is people mischaracterizing it as an AWS outage.

Yep that's my point. I'm guessing that for a lot of sites they can verify if there's an outage pretty easily when they see a spike in reports, but for something like AWS unless they updated their status page (lol) or downdetector ran a bunch of stuff on there just to check with, I guess they don't have a good way to verify it.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by toddh »

davidjgraph wrote: post #15

Serious question, has anyone properly solved the issue of DNS as a single point of failure?

You can still hardcode IP addresses. Not sure most people realize DNS isn't actually needed, you know, except for convenience and all that.
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