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Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by fwip »

airstrike wrote: post #105
jakeschaeffer wrote: post #95

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https://handshake.org is the only project I've seen that actually solves the issue with a decentralized root zone file. https://namebase.io is a "registrar" for it.

Why does this need to have the whole NFT / crypto / auction angle? https://learn.namebase.io/starting-from-zero/how-to-get-a-na... This is so convoluted it actually makes the whole thing a non-starter

Decentralized control of a centralized finite resource (domain names) requires consensus. For example, Joe Smith and Joe Blow both want joe.com.

You want a protocol that gives consistent "global" state without any centralized / trusted users - blockchain/bitcoin is one of the only technical solutions to provide that.

I agree that it's a garbage solution in practice, but that's why it's got cryptoshit bundled in.

A potential different solution to DNS monopoly, if that is a problem that needs solving, is multiple name-resolution providers that have differing records on what name points where. (The tradeoff is that an owner may need to register their name with multiple different providers).

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Post by ksec »

mindcrime wrote: post #50
cpgeier wrote: post #24

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Amazing that down detector manages to stay up during these kinds of outages. Noticed it has been a little slow but they really have done a good job keeping it up even though large portions of the internet is down right now.

Who detects if Down Detector is down? Is there a isdowndetectordown.com site?

I guess the mother of all Network Downtime checker is HN.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by arnado »

chewmieser wrote: post #134
decrypt wrote: post #120

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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.

My favorite feature personally is the built-in 2FA support. Click and it logs into your account and copies the 2fa code to clipboard so just paste on next screen. Multiple vaults too is nice but I know others have ways to limit exposure of passwords in similar manners.

Bitwarden offers this as well, but I don't really understand why you would want it. If someone compromises your password manager, 2FA is now worthless. Or am I misunderstanding how it works?

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by Terretta »

knaik94 wrote: post #55

I am surprised financial institutions don't have any regulation for redundancy. The one that stuck out to me is the Navy Federal Credit Union website being down. I have not had any issues logging into mobile though for some of the reported sites.

> financial institutions don't have any regulation for redundancy

As CTO of a bank, I wasn’t aware of this. So either we wasted a ton of money and time constantly upgrading redundancy and business continuity technologies to satisfy our regulators… or this statement could be mistaken.

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Post by lxgr »

tjpnz wrote: post #58

Just got booted out of Netflix on the PS4 because the console could no longer connect to Sony's license server. Netflix was working just fine by the way.

Was the app installed/running using a secondary PSN account by any chance? This shouldn't be happening on a primary account/console pair.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by elithrar »

dheera wrote: post #121
dbsmith83 wrote: post #8

https://downdetector.com/archive So many sites down... and unfortunately not one of them is Twitter

Is there a way to tell your system to fall back to the last known IP address if DNS server isn't reachable? Basically soft-invalidate your local DNS cache but it back from the cache graveyard if DNS is down.

You could run a local resolver like dnsmasq or Unbound that can “serve stale” on upstream failures, but that assumes the DNS failure is a client-facing resolver one.

From what I observed here, it was more internal DNS related: Newegg was serving an opaque “DNS failure” error page from Akamai’s front-end which is likely because their infra was failing to resolve names internally.

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Post by eddieroger »

revscat wrote: post #131
decrypt wrote: post #120

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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.

Can you explain what family organizer-based recovery means? It sounds like dad or mom could recover a kids password?

That's about right for what it is, or at least how I think about it. There's no magic "unlock vault" button (by design), but an Organizer can kick off a workflow to reset a vault if need be. I have a few of the more tech-savvy family members set as organizers in my family in case something ever happens to me.
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