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Re:Microsoft says attempts to fix global outage not going 'a... by whatevaa on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:17AM (#50481182)
I guess you must do that electric utility does to avoid blackout - drop a lot of consumers and add them slowly back as things stabilize.
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Re:Microsoft says attempts to fix global outage not going 'a... by theapadayo on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:22AM (#50481263)
That would be the status updates about isolating traffic. Still can be hard to do when half of the internet is retrying their failed requests on your servers.
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