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”
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.
Ah, klugerblickdummkopf
It’s always DNS
It was the best race anyone has ever seen 🫲🍊🫱
It’s funny aws report didn’t mention 40% of aws sysops people were replaced by AI right prior https://blog.stackademic.com/aws-just-fired-40-of-its-devops-team-then-let-ai-take-their-jobs-d9db9d298bfa
Unbelievable, racism even exists in networking!
Beat me to it!
Those damn ones
Ironically, my pihole is blocking that link. So here’s a clean one: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/amazon_outage_postmortem/
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.
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
But but Bezos has to pay for another rocket and yacht and he just got married!!! Think about his quarterly statement! My god are you heartless!!!
/s
(just in case it’s not obvious)
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.
GUIDs?
Could you expand on that topic? :)guids like these: https://guidgenerator.com/
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.deMakes sense there or for webservers.
But anywhere else? Lol not really
Why would someone want that as their hostname???
I’d understand mountpoint but that?
Racist DNS!
I’m glad these things happen… it keeps everyone aware that cloud is fragile and Plan B should be considered for mission critical tasks.
I’m also hoping that it will improve cloud resiliency because a complete / partial restart of cloud systems needs a whole different approach than maintaining a running system.
Many different companies abruptly realized they need a DR plan for cloud outages
Makes sense. DNS is quite a single point of failure
It is designed to not to be. The RFC literally warns against single points of failure
I love it when meme-tech fails.
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They should check out YUNOhost.
Yeah, I don’t get why they don’t just put a RasPi in some corner, put PiHole on it and call it a day.
Geez, I mean, they could even charge extra for it, as they now block ads for their customers as well.
Like, imma gonna sell my advice to Amazon now, so they can clean up their act.
