For 4 days, the c-root server maintained by Cogent lost touch with its 12 peers.
  • Sloan the Serval@pawb.social
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    6 months ago

    Could be something as simple as computers just being screwy sometimes. Or something as unlikely but still precedented as a bit-flip caused by an excited electron causing something important to actually be affected.

    • theneverfox@pawb.social
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      5 months ago

      It blows my mind that fact isn’t more widely shared, especially among technical folk. There’s a reason for the superstitions every senior dev seems to develop one way or another

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    6 months ago

    Oddly, any DNS requests made to the server after it came back started returning IPs outside the 0…255 range. Despite that, devices could still make HTTP requests to them. When they did so, they only got served a single text file containing PLEASE STOP. IT HURTS.