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I was assuming there are couple of services like Fastly and companies might have architected keeping in mind the alternatives too, I guess.
https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter... The whole idea of the internet was a distributed network impervious to most attacks. The reality is that a single failure can knock out 90% of the services people use.
ps. "The Internet was build to survive attacks" is not true. It's a myth made popular by Robert Cringely in the early 1990s. The Arpanet was simply a protocol for mainframes used by computer scientists to connect. The Internet is relatively resilient against attacks, but that was not the "whole idea". It was not in the design at all.
Bob Taylor: “In February of 1966 I initiated the ARPAnet project. I was Director of ARPA‘s Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) from late ‚65 to late ‚69. There were only two people involved in the decision to launch the ARPAnet: my boss, the Director of ARPA Charles Herzfeld, and me. The creation of the ARPAnet was not motivated by considerations of war. The ARPAnet was created to enable folks with common interests to connect with one another through interactive computing even when widely separated by geography”.
Vint Cerf says the same about invention if TCP/IP transport protocol.
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/main/x86_64/APKIN... fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/community/x86_64/... ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/main: temporary error (try again later)
This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
I'm grateful for HN. I rebooted my computer. I thought it was my device and then saw this on my phone while rebooting.
This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj