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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by gkoberger on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:05PM (#28750732)
No, but most HN users know what Facebook (and WhatsApp and Instagram) are.

That being said, I've seen theories that certain non-FB sites are slow just because DNS lookups are so backed up.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by nottorp on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:08PM (#28751431)
DNS lookups are certainly slower for random sites. I just opened an about zero traffic site that i hadn't gone to in a while (so dns not cached). It took a while (10 seconds?) to load the first time. Insta load the second time.

This seems to happen for .com but not other TLDs so maybe .com is getting hammered?

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by blendergeek on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:21PM (#28750897)
> That being said, I've seen theories that certain non-FB sites are slow just because DNS lookups are so backed up.

I have been getting a Hacker News error message more often then usual today. So I don't think it is just DNS.

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