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Re:Dyn Analysis Summary of Friday October 21 Attack by xorcist on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:19PM (#12801208)
If Spotify's networks are all down, what good would a functioning DNS do?

(And I know it's not that simple, but that's probably the basic reasoning behind it.)

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Re:Dyn Analysis Summary of Friday October 21 Attack by profmonocle on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @09:48PM (#12802312)
> If Spotify's networks are all down, what good would a functioning DNS do?

Email would still work. You can't receive email if the sending server can't look up your MX records. Since spotify.com uses Google Apps, their email would survive a total network outage if they used third-party DNS.

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