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Re:ProtonMail Is Down by krn on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:15PM (#32059674)
> The number of things I can think of that so many different services & are not a massively catastrophic failure is pretty small.

Like, for instance, a simple DNS or BGP misconfiguration that takes the entire network down?

Cloudflare (June 2022):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31823132

OVH (October 2021):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28849319

Facebook (October 2021):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28752131

Google (June 2019):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421

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Re:ProtonMail Is Down by 29083011397778 on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:28PM (#32059838)
We don't know for certain, but you may have missed Rogers [0] - which brought down cell phones (every function but wifi), debit transactions, and 911 services.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_o...

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Re:ProtonMail Is Down by tick_tock_tick on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:31PM (#32060666)
No ones it too big to not fuck up BGP or DNS from time to time.
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