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1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Oct-2016 21:12:46 UTC Annah
   Another DDOS on a DNS provider, another going on about how "fragile" DNS is that misses the actual problem of many people relying on a single, centralized point of failure.
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   • Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Oct-2016 21:22:26 UTC Annah

     • Purple Hippo
     @purplehippo In this case it's the services.  TW, NYT, Twitter, facebook, etc, all using the same single DNS provider, so one if just one of them gets hit with a big enough DNS they all do.  Probably something done out of Silicon Valley chummy deals more than anything that they're all using the same company.
     
     DNS is *meant* to be distributed to be able to absorb exactly this kind of thing, but big businesses like their centralized silos.
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   • Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Oct-2016 08:57:46 UTC Verius

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     • Purple Hippo
     @maiyannah @purplehippo I thought DNS had the concept of secondary DNS servers. Wonder if it's possible to have multiple DNS servers at different orgs to limit the impact of something like this.
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