I remember when .com went down, in July 1997.
replyhttps://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/we...
> For instance, the name "www.nytimes.com" corresponds to nine different computers that answer requests for The New York Times on the Web, one of which is 199.181.172.242
reply $ dig -x 199.181.172.242 +short
www2.nytimes.com.
DENIC apparently resolved all .de domains to NXDOMAIN in 2010: https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/12/germany_top_level_dom...
replyIt's Germany, pessimistic time estimation + 1/3 and you are in a realistic time frame for the issue being resolved.
replyIt's night. Somebody has to fill a form to approve night work first.
replyAnd then fax the form to the correct authority, so that the request is Official(tm).
replyWell at least that doesn't require functioning DNS. This time around, it in fact could not have been an email :)
replyIn fact it could, you just would address the IP directly instead of a hostname.
replyI know that people are joking, but of course we also have (extra paid) on call shifts.
replyAnd send it by post for approval, which will take 5-30 business days.
replyFax, actually! Will still take 5–30 business days for approval, for some reasons
replyOh come on, that’s not true. You could also fax it. That might come with an additional processing fee though.
replyI many days would an email take?
replyDont be ridiculous, thats what FAX is for.
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replyLuckily it's not Sunday. Everyone would be out in the country hiking.
replyOr reading the latest prints about tax filings and how to conduct a compliance audit with pen and paper.
replyOr sweeping.
replyThat's a sweeping generalization.
replyOr in Berghain
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replyIn addition: it's Germany, pessimistic cost estimation + 2000%, and you are in a realistic budget for the issue being resolved.
reply:D... before tax!
replyMust have been mid 2000s. Root dns servers were down. Super hard to diagnose the issues it causes on your side because it "never happens".
replyThere's a good index of major DNSSEC outages here, https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html
replyGermany isn't as big as you think.
replyYeah it's only the third largest economy in the world
replyI just checked and the can of Paulaner in the fridge is not affected by the outage so far, thus my trust into German economy remains unshaken.
reply> Yeah it's only the third largest economy in the world
replyYou can both be the 3rd biggest economy in the world and still only be 1/10th of US+China GDPs combined.
And only three companies in the Top 100 for Germany:
https://companiesmarketcap.com/
Germany is the kingdom of the "mittelstand": many, many, many SMEs.
Both GP and you are right: it's the 3rd largest economy in the world and yet it's simply not that big.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
In other words: I expect this German DNS SNAFU to have 0.000000001% impact on the world's GDP this year.
> In other words: I expect this German DNS SNAFU to have 0.000000001% impact on the world's GDP this year.
reply126 trillion USD * 0.00000000001 = 1260USD
I'm pretty sure the impact was higher than that ;)
How is 1/10th the size of number 1 and 2 COMBINED small? In what world is that a small number? Especially as those two are 1.8 billion people vs 0.08 billion for Germany
replyThis comparison threw me for such a loop. What an odd way to present a point.
replyWell it was already very late in the day (21-22?) so the impact was not big I would say
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