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by smnscu 3530 days ago
Twitter and GitHub have been down for me for a while now.
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Mizza 3530 days ago
You can use this to find IPs for services that are currently out: https://dns.google.com/query?name=github.com&type=A&dnssec=t...
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K2L8M11N2 3530 days ago
TIL about dns.google.com. Seems to be pretty handy for doing quick lookups. Thanks Mizza!
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smn1234 3530 days ago
they're not down you just can't resolve the URL
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studio816 3530 days ago
as a temp solution, add these to your /etc/hosts file: 192.30.253.113 github.com 151.101.44.133 assets-cdn.github.com
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kayamon 3530 days ago
I'm kinda surprised at how bad the OSs deal with this. If you can't get a DNS lookup, would it be so crazy to use the last-known cached value for it?

There's no reason for a computer to not be able to find a site I've been visiting every day for the last year. DNS data should be cached for at least 48 hours -- TTLs should be set to at least this.

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atcole 3530 days ago
I navigated to the IP address for Github, but it still tries to resolve to github.com
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