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Re:GitHub is down by gondaloof on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:14PM (#35817802)
Everything is down. How can this happen? Many of these services are unrelated, like even the brand-new Codespaces and Copilot are completely down. Do they all have a single point of failure? (Presumably the git server)
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Re:GitHub is down by zackkitzmiller on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:18PM (#35817884)
DNS. It's always DNS
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Re:GitHub is down by jallen_dot_dev on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:31PM (#35818085)
It's not DNS

There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS

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Re:GitHub is down by capableweb on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:21PM (#35817917)
When in doubt, and the outage is widespread it's either DNS or BGP, most likely DNS. My money is also on DNS in this case.
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Re:GitHub is down by TimWolla on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:59PM (#35818589)
I suspect you'd lose that money. Many of the recent GitHub outages were caused by database issues. Examples: https://github.blog/2023-05-03-github-availability-report-ap.... In fact last march they specifically mentioned “Database stability”: https://github.blog/2022-04-06-github-availability-report-ma...
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Re:GitHub is down by ehayes on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:16PM (#35817832)
Yeah but they probably all share DNS or something related to networking
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Re:GitHub is down by brookst on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:20PM (#35817900)
DNS, BGP, PKI, probably other TLAs.
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Re:GitHub is down by WookieRushing on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:26PM (#35818002)
My bet is on cache servers having a bad release
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