[Outages-discussion] Dyn outage continuing

[Chris Adams]

[moved to outages-discussion]

Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore via Outages <outages at outages.org> said:
> However, Dyn is far, far better positioned to withstand attacks than a company like PagerDuty could possibly be on their own. So I think PagerDuty did the right thing in using Dyn.

The flip side is that the concentration of services in "specialist"
hands makes it easier to attack a large number of companies at once.  If
PagerDuty ran their own DNS, they are not a likely target of an attack,
so would be unaffected.

"The Cloud" means you don't control your own destiny, and you share your
destiny with all the other cloudlings in your cloud.  Just like a
network that wants to be highly available needs mutiple connections to
multiple providers, people should consider using multiple cloud
providers when handing off critical services.

-- 
Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>