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I wonder if this is why LastPass is down. It has completely locked me out of my vault. You'd think it'd continue to work offline in a case like this. :/
I switched to BitWarden and haven't looked back. You can use it on the phone and pc (browser). As well as a desktop client.
Specifically, 1.1.1.1 provided bad addresses (as opposed to no addresses), and removing 1.1.1.1 fixed my problem. By then it had returned a bunch of bad addresses and I had to flush my DNS cache.
Serious question, has anyone properly solved the issue of DNS as a single point of failure?
https://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/ , a Trading Platform, is also down as well :( How am I going to sell my AMC stock...
Serious question, has anyone properly solved the issue of DNS as a single point of failure?
It's an interesting question, as it's always been solved on the server side. All of the current problem is client side. That is, client resolvers that aren't using diverse providers, and only do things like round-robin with long timeouts.
Why would Google and Amazon be on the downdetector list or experiencing issues? Don't they have their own DNS / nameservers separate from Akamai?
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.
Downdetector only reports an issue if a significant number of users are impacted. To that end, Downdetector calculates a baseline volume of typical problem reports for each service monitored, based on the average number of reports for that given time of day over the last year. Downdetector’s incident detection system compares the current number of problem reports to this baseline and only reports an issue if the current volume significantly exceeds the typical volume of reports.
https://www.speedtest.net/insights/blog/how-downdetector-wor...
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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.
A more proper name might be PeopleThinkItsDownDetector.com