[Outages-discussion] [outages] DNSimple outage

Cal Leeming cal at iops.io
Tue Dec 2 07:23:56 EST 2014


Yup, DNSimple messed up pretty badly here imho, sounds like they really
just didn't know how to handle the situation properly (imho)

Cal

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:

> Reading through some of the twitter commentary I get the impression from
> many network admins that they feel this was out of their control.  They
> could have avoided an outage by using multiple nameservers across multiple
> providers.  Don’t put all your namserver eggs on one IP, one server, one
> subnet, one prefix, one AS, one peer, or one DNS provider.  Simply having
> an additional well-functioning nameserver in another AS with another
> provider can avoid a world of pain.
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> Frank
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> *From:* Outages [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] *On Behalf Of *Grant
> Ridder via Outages
> *Sent:* Monday, December 01, 2014 1:31 PM
> *To:* outages at outages.org
> *Subject:* [outages] DNSimple outage
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> "We are seeing a system-wide DNS outage. Investigating now."
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> https://twitter.com/dnsimple/status/539499331670511616
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> This is affecting Travis CI, PackageCloud.io, and RubyGems
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> -Grant
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