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Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees

go.theregister.com

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A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees

go.theregister.com

Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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: Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours
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    So it is always DNS

    • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudOP
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      can confirm, its always DNS. Even when it looks like a network issue, its DNS

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        Spotted the Network guy

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          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”

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            Dev: My app’s getting a 400 hitting the server. Your firewall changes broke it.

            Me: You’re getting to the server, it’s giving you back a malformed request error. Most likely it’s a problem in your client.

            Dev: it worked fine until you made that change in QA.

            Me: Your server is in production.

            After that, I just get too busy to look at it for a while… They figure it out eventually.

          • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            They might be referring to their brain network being to slow and having problems.

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            Ah, klugerblickdummkopf

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      https://isitdns.com/

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        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.

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          Agreed, could be static HTML and a GIF.

          Thanks, I won’t click that link.

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          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
          
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            Your website no longer uses DNS invalidating its use as a diagnostic tool lmao

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          Did not think of doing that.

          I guess i never expected anyone to have a fcking JavaScript on a simple page as that

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            How else would you center a div??

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              http://howtocenterincss.com/

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          I just did the same f’ing thing and came here to write your comment!

          well done.

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          lmao, considering some of the meaningless comments there i’m starting to think it’s “vibe coded”.

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            There have been 209 versions of that site

            https://web.archive.org/web/20250331043558/https://www.isitdns.com/

            it predated AI, but likely seems to have had some AI cleanup.

            If it was truly just vibecoded, the comments would usually be on every element.

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      It’s always DNS

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