Post B0OAz3ym7WtC4HFSrY by karlauerbach@sfba.social
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 (DIR) Post #B0OAz2HqPexEoq9fJA by whitequark@mastodon.social
       2025-11-18T18:18:41Z
       
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       you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrinkisn't technology beautifulhttps://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage-on-july-2-2019/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7PJoxaMZg
       
 (DIR) Post #B0OAz3ym7WtC4HFSrY by karlauerbach@sfba.social
       2025-11-18T23:05:51Z
       
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       @whitequark Back around year 2000 when I first came onto the ICANN board of directors I made a proposal that ICANN establish a worldwide mesh of DNS monitoring stations to check DNS availability, response times, and response accuracy. I even had buy in from a major, worldwide website monitoring company to host those DNS monitoring stations.  ICANN didn't want to hear this then, nor does it seem to want to hear it now.Our internet is extremely brittle and is becoming even more so.  And that weakness is made worse by increasing tall and thick security barriers that make it ever harder to monitor for failures, diagnose and isolate what is happening, and to deploy repairs.Little, if any, attention is being paid to this increasing risk.  A few years back I wrote the following note about this problem:https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/netsecurity/