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by oarsinsync 1716 days ago
> Some applications may have seen increased load and suffered due to server resourcing constraints, caused by applications like the above failing to fail gracefully, and instead polling more aggressively.

I had Cloudflare's woes in mind when I wrote that.
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TheCoelacanth 1716 days ago
So your point is that it didn't slow down the entire Internet, only the parts of the Internet that use DNS (damn near all of them)?
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oarsinsync 1715 days ago
Based on cloudflare's own blog[0], 1% of queries went unanswered for about 10 mins, and were significantly delayed for a few hours. 5% of queries were delayed for a couple of hours. 95% of queries continued to be resolved as normal.

This is referring explicitly to users of 1.1.1.1, which is likely not the same infrastructure as domains hosted by cloudflare dns.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

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