oh sure, when they fuck up DNS it's a "race condition".
when I fuck up DNS it's a "fireable offense".
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It was the best race anyone has ever seen 🫲🍊🫱
Let's be honest, not all races are equal 🫲🍊🫱
It’s not DNS
There’s no way it’s DNS
It was DNS
That and BGP
If I had a nickel for every time clearing the ARP tables fixed a problem, I'd have a shitload of nickels.
If clearing the ARP tables fixes the issue you have bigger problems
These things happen when a skinflint company contracts out network setup for a decade, gets acquired by another skinflint company who axes the contractors and doesn't hire on-site network personnel, gradually builds out infra on top of the unsupported foundation, and then hires c suite buddies who want to bring in their own people to further muddy the waters.
So it is always DNS
can confirm, its always DNS. Even when it looks like a network issue, its DNS
Spotted the Network guy
Oh man. One of my old companies, the Devs would always blame the network. Even after we spent a year upgrading and removing all SPOFs. They’d blame the network…..
“Your application is somehow producing 2 billion packets per second and your SQL queries are returning 5GB of data”…. “See! The network is too slow and it has problems”
I always view the source of websites like this and this is one of the worst I've seen. 217 lines of code (including inline Javascript?!) and a Google tag for some reason, all to put the word YES in green on black.
lmao, considering some of the meaningless comments there i'm starting to think it's "vibe coded".
this made me mad so i made a single, ultra minimal html page in 5 minutes that you can just paste in your url box
data:text/html;base64,PCFkb2N0eXBlaHRtbD48Ym9keSBzdHlsZT10ZXh0LWFsaWduOmNlbnRlcjtmb250LWZhbWlseTpzYW5zLXNlcmlmO2JhY2tncm91bmQ6IzAwMDtjb2xvcjojMmYyPjxoMT5JcyBpdCBETlM/PC9oMT48cCBzdHlsZT1mb250LXNpemU6MTJyZW0+WWVz
source code:
<!doctypehtml><body style=text-align:center;font-family:sans-serif;background:#000;color:#2f2><h1>Is it DNS?</h1><p style=font-size:12rem>Yes
Agreed, could be static HTML and a GIF.
Thanks, I won't click that link.
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It’s always DNS
That's what you get when you let go hundreds of employees from your cloud computing unit in favour of AI.
I hope they end up having to compensate all the billions of losses they caused to all the businesses and people.
Oops! All slop!
Consequences? For Amazon?
lol… lmao even
They do have contracts and are obligated to provide a certain "up time", which is usually 99% or so. If they fail to provide that, they are liable to compensate for the losses.
Or do you think that Amazon is above the law and no other company could sue them?
It all depends on what kind of contracts they have.
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Mistakes happen with or without AI
The problem is that the current internet is structured in a way that creates high risk systems that can cause a massive outage. We went from having thousands of independent companies to a handful of massive ones. A mistake by a single company shouldn't be able to black out half the internet.
Was it proven that AI wa the cause?
In not saying it wasn't, just that if it really was, I'd like a source for that claim
There was never any evidence to even suggest that AI was the cause, but as you're on lemmy I'm sure you know that AI is currently blamed for pretty much everything.
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This is purely anecdotal, but I have been running into a lot of DNS issues over the past couple months where I work. 3 of the computers and even one of the laptops for remote work were having DNS issues that needed to be fixed. One even needed Windows reinstalled after fixing the DNS issue (Which was probably unrelated, but worth mentioning)
I'm honestly starting to think that the internet in general might be imploding. Not sure why, but replacing so many developers and programmers with AI might be responsible. Who knows, but it's definitely very strange.
A huge problem are developers who lack a fundamental understanding of how the internet even works. I've had to explain how short, unqualified names resolve vs how fqdns resolve. Or why even you may not be able to reach another node in your proverbial cluster, because they are on different subnets. Or, why using GUIDs as hostnames is a generally bad idea, and will cause things to fail in unpredictable ways, especially with deeply nested subdomains.
I have worked with too many devs that didn't even know what the 7 layers/OSI are or why they exist.
they didn't know what a network port was used for and why it's important to not expose 3306 to the internet.
they couldn't understand that fragmentation of a message bus occurs when you don't dedupe the contents.
you know, morons.
Ah, the common clay of the new Web
GUIDs?
Could you expand on that topic? :)
guids like these: https://guidgenerator.com/
Why would someone want that as their hostname???
I'd understand mountpoint but that?
Why the fuck would anyone use a guid as a hostname?
My favorite I've seen in the category was when they had hostnames that were basically the IP address decorated with some bullshit. Like yeeeeeeeeah, that totally makes fucking sense. 😆
I've seen those with public routing servers.
Example: IP-127.0.0.1.dtag.de
Makes sense there or for webservers.
But anywhere else? Lol not really
The biggest issue is how centralized the internet has become. It went from a bunch of local servers to a handful of cloud providers.
We need to spread things out again
That's not how capitalism works though
I DNS see that coming.
Ironically, my pihole is blocking that link. So here’s a clean one: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/amazon_outage_postmortem/
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