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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by mwint on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:15PM (#28963914)
Allows for completely separate stacks running the status page, including DNS and registrar. In theory, you could run your status page using zero infrastructure common with your main domain.
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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by zinekeller on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:27PM (#28964044)
Someone have commented that (for brevity and to ensure anonymity, the wording have been changed):

  Your answer makes no sense, DNS are decentralised!
Someone have forgotten Facebook's outage.
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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by pilsetnieks on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:14PM (#28964406)
It wasn't DNS in principle that caused the outage.

If I recall correctly, it was their DNS servers that did that in a convoluted kind of way but not because of DNS as such. Due to some connection error or another the servers that also run DNS ordered the routers to withdraw the BGP routes to all Facebook properties which in turn killed access to said DNS servers.

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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by zinekeller on Saturday October 23, 2021 @03:22AM (#28966412)
You're technically correct, but someone making that DNS is decentralised is plain wrong (it's far from it).
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Re:Fastmail is having problems again by nerdwaller on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:21PM (#28963984)
That makes sense. Thank you!
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