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by MuffinFlavored 700 days ago
What could possibly cause this kind of outage? Loss of a datacenter? Physical problem?

How can a "DNS" problem (or something similar) be this widescale?
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BandButcher 700 days ago
I remember something with facebook? where their internal DNS was misconfigured.

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"This change caused a complete disconnection of our server connections between our data centers and the internet. And that total loss of connection caused a second issue that made things worse. "

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...

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

https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/facebook-outage-analysis

Not sure if MS is going through the same issue but DNS could be a reason why

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red-iron-pine 699 days ago
It's not DNS

There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS

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barkingcat 700 days ago
DNS is definitely capable of widescale disruption.

A dns error can take down the entire internet.

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