[HN Gopher] The internet just had another major global outage. W...
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       The internet just had another major global outage. Why does this
       keep happening?
        
       Author : billybuckwheat
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-10-20 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | karmakaze wrote:
       | Funny, a telephone book is a good analogy--but some would need
       | that explained.
       | 
       | > DNS is like an internet location engine, converting user-
       | friendly web addresses like amazon.com into IP addresses - a
       | series of numbers that other websites and applications can
       | understand.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Non-syndicated source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/tech/aws-
       | why-internet-outages...
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       | Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838
        
       | hdgvhicv wrote:
       | All eggs in one basket. The same basket. Because of groupthink.
       | 
       | Throw in penny pinching and cost cutting and you run on the edge.
       | Nobody gets a bonus for spending money on backup systems. Nobody
       | gets fired for buying ibm.
        
         | SOLAR_FIELDS wrote:
         | Part of this is also naivete of people spinning up systems in
         | AWS us-east-1. Any SRE or operator will tell you to never spin
         | up systems in there unless you have a requirement to do so.
         | It's long been a tribal knowledge of the instability. This
         | outage is more widespread than others but I see region level
         | outages, at least partial ones, happen there every 1-2 years on
         | average
        
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