Now even the DYN Status page is inaccessible from the Eastern US https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8 (Github still down from the Eastern US.)
Massive Dyn DNS outage
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#152It's 9:55am PST California and Twitter is down.
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#153In 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…
On the East Coast, Twitter still down for me on mobile. All the Twitter media resources (twimg.com) are also not appearing.
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#154All 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?
If ONLY they had 10X developers ... EDIT: joking aside, the issue with multiple DNS providers is primarily (in my experience at the company I'm at having investigated this in the past) intelligent DNS entries. Example, 'return these A records, in this order, based on the number of requests, roughly balanced'. There's no universal standard, just common aspects. DNS Provider A has one set of features, names for returni…
In my experience Dyn pushes this functionality very hard during customer on boarding, effectively as a lock in for their platform.
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#155It's 9:56am PST California and Twitter is down.
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#156All 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?
agreed 100%. This kind of thing shouldn't happen and this widespread. It's like no one is preparing for worse case scenarios until AFTER something tragic happens. On the West Coast and I just lost twitter/soundcloud/github - 9:40 am PST
loss of twitter, soundcloud, and github is what passes for tragic these days?
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
agreed 100%. This kind of thing shouldn't happen and this widespread. It's like no one is preparing for worse case scenarios until AFTER something tragic happens. On the West Coast and I just lost twitter/soundcloud/github - 9:40 am PST
loss of twitter, soundcloud, and github is what passes for tragic these days?
Try PayPal. That's gonna be a big issue for everyone who uses their payment processing.
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#160It's 9:58am PST in California and Twitter is still down.