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Salesforce Global Outage

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  1. danjc · · focus · HN ↗
    It's dns isn't it
    1. afr0ck · · focus · HN ↗
      Classic
    2. ghusto · · focus · HN ↗
      No, IPv6
    3. Bluestein · · focus · HN ↗
      It's always DNS.-
      1. ajross · · focus · HN ↗
        More like 70% human-configured DNS, 25% human-configured routing configuration, 5% interesting software bug.
        1. Bluestein · · focus · HN ↗
          Entirely correct.-

          (Nowadays any of those need to fit in an "agent dropped all tables. Apologized" moment.-)

    4. bearjaws · · focus · HN ↗
      Feel like it has to be for all of this to go down at the same time.
    5. dogas · · focus · HN ↗
      I was scrolling to see this comment, haha
    6. whatthesmack · · focus · HN ↗
      The last time it was DNS at Salesforce, the poor guy got unceremoniously canned. So there's some incentive for it to... not be DNS.
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