Re:Tell/Ask HN: HN WebSite is/was down. I'm curious why?
by SamSkjord on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @05:55AM
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£20 says it was DNS
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Re:Tell/Ask HN: HN WebSite is/was down. I'm curious why?
by mikiem on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:05AM
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DNS was actually the first alert we received, but alas was not the cause.
Re:Tell/Ask HN: HN WebSite is/was down. I'm curious why?
by karmakaze on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @06:00AM
(#38610922)
It's all working for me, but everything's super super slow. Usually opening pages in private mode/not-logged-in is fast, but not this time.
It almost seems like DDoS on CDN or something like that.
Re:Tell/Ask HN: HN WebSite is/was down. I'm curious why?
by mikiem on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:10AM
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Initially, it seemed like a DoS to us too, but it was not. This was confirmed by upstream provider metrics. No major traffic spikes. It was a combination of non-malicious things. More info later, some of us need sleep.