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Hurricane Electric Emergency DNS Maintenance

63 points by Shelnutt2 4y ago

dclaw 4y ago
I'm sure soon they'll be having one of their annual power outages too.
- amluto 4y ago
  And an outage of their excellent 2FA system. Oh wait, they don’t have one.
  - taf2 4y ago
    Racing to bottom sucks for everyone…
    - buttocks 4y ago
      What's the meaning of this negative commentary? Is HE known to be at the bottom? I have been using their DNS services for a decade and don't think I've ever experienced a problem. In fact I am impressed at what they offer for free.
      - deleted 4y ago
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      - stas2k 4y ago
        Same here! Very happy with their free service, and they do support 2FA. UI is minimal and gets everything done
      - AviationAtom 4y ago
        They do indeed provide some excellent quality services to the public, without asking any payment in return. I love their BGP tools, among many others.
      - alyandon 4y ago
        Yeah, same here. I've used HE tunnels and DNS for close to a decade myself and have zero complaints about the free public service they provide.
  - AviationAtom 4y ago
    They provide a variety of free public services. I doubt the funding allocated for such projects is crazy high, and it likely rides on the backs of a few super talented engineers. Beggars can't be choosers. Were it a paid service then I could better understand your complaints. I'm willing to bet if you reached out to them, inquiring about the lack of any feature, then they would likely explain why it has yet to be implemented.
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    - amluto 4y ago
      Last I checked, their actual colocation service (very much paid) had no 2FA.
  - gaius_baltar 4y ago
    > And an outage of their excellent 2FA system. Oh wait, they don’t have one. They use TOPT or am I missing something?
- rsync 4y ago
  "I'm sure soon they'll be having one of their annual power outages too." All of my personal racks and (roughly) 1/5 of rsync.net have been inside the he.net core datacenter for 12 years. I have never experienced a single power outage. Warm Springs datacenter. Genuinely curious what you're talking about ?
  - LinuxBender 4y ago
    Just guessing but they might be referring to their first datacenter in Fremont. No idea if it is even still around but their first DC was a hot mess. The newer one which is likely the one you are in was a night and day difference. The newer one had redundant power and networking and was built professionally. I say newer but this was a long time ago.
    - bcrosby95 4y ago
      We colocated in both Fremont DCs for about 10 years. Their newer one had 2 power outages within a couple months when we were there (I think this was in 2009 or 2008). I don't remember why exactly it happened, but I think for at least one they had redundant power disconnected for reasons. Other than that we had no issues though. But it's been about 7 years since we've colocated our servers there.
      - rsync 4y ago
        OK, thanks. FWIW, I entered the (newer one) in 2010 and I have experienced zero power fluctuations in these 12 years.
    - faster 4y ago
      I've had servers in FMT1 since 2000. They had a series of power issues. Generators didn't start and everything died. Next time the power went out the generator started and the switch from the grid to the generator blew out the switching system (and killed one of my hard drives and who knows what else) IIRC. I'm pretty sure Linode moved to FMT2 because of this. There have been other problems but around 10 years ago they reached a point where the whole power backup system was new and they have only had one outage that I can remember since then.
based2 4y ago
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24536 https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/... DNS RCE
- quesera 4y ago
  Does Hurricane Electric run Windows DNS Server ??
  - AviationAtom 4y ago
    I'd highly doubt it, but could be wrong. Perhaps someone on their team might be able to give more details, through one medium or another.
CaliforniaKarl 4y ago
The page has returned to their normal landing page, so I think service has been restored.
- roastedpeacock 4y ago
  Anyone have an archive of the incident notice?
based2 4y ago
https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00913 https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00913

63 points by Shelnutt2 4y ago

dclaw 4y ago

I'm sure soon they'll be having one of their annual power outages too.

amluto 4y ago
And an outage of their excellent 2FA system. Oh wait, they don’t have one.
- taf2 4y ago
  Racing to bottom sucks for everyone…
  - buttocks 4y ago
    What's the meaning of this negative commentary? Is HE known to be at the bottom? I have been using their DNS services for a decade and don't think I've ever experienced a problem. In fact I am impressed at what they offer for free.
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
    - stas2k 4y ago
      Same here! Very happy with their free service, and they do support 2FA. UI is minimal and gets everything done
    - AviationAtom 4y ago
      They do indeed provide some excellent quality services to the public, without asking any payment in return. I love their BGP tools, among many others.
    - alyandon 4y ago
      Yeah, same here. I've used HE tunnels and DNS for close to a decade myself and have zero complaints about the free public service they provide.
- AviationAtom 4y ago
  They provide a variety of free public services. I doubt the funding allocated for such projects is crazy high, and it likely rides on the backs of a few super talented engineers. Beggars can't be choosers. Were it a paid service then I could better understand your complaints. I'm willing to bet if you reached out to them, inquiring about the lack of any feature, then they would likely explain why it has yet to be implemented.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - amluto 4y ago
    Last I checked, their actual colocation service (very much paid) had no 2FA.
- gaius_baltar 4y ago
  > And an outage of their excellent 2FA system. Oh wait, they don’t have one. They use TOPT or am I missing something?
rsync 4y ago
"I'm sure soon they'll be having one of their annual power outages too." All of my personal racks and (roughly) 1/5 of rsync.net have been inside the he.net core datacenter for 12 years. I have never experienced a single power outage. Warm Springs datacenter. Genuinely curious what you're talking about ?
- LinuxBender 4y ago
  Just guessing but they might be referring to their first datacenter in Fremont. No idea if it is even still around but their first DC was a hot mess. The newer one which is likely the one you are in was a night and day difference. The newer one had redundant power and networking and was built professionally. I say newer but this was a long time ago.
  - bcrosby95 4y ago
    We colocated in both Fremont DCs for about 10 years. Their newer one had 2 power outages within a couple months when we were there (I think this was in 2009 or 2008). I don't remember why exactly it happened, but I think for at least one they had redundant power disconnected for reasons. Other than that we had no issues though. But it's been about 7 years since we've colocated our servers there.
    - rsync 4y ago
      OK, thanks. FWIW, I entered the (newer one) in 2010 and I have experienced zero power fluctuations in these 12 years.
  - faster 4y ago
    I've had servers in FMT1 since 2000. They had a series of power issues. Generators didn't start and everything died. Next time the power went out the generator started and the switch from the grid to the generator blew out the switching system (and killed one of my hard drives and who knows what else) IIRC. I'm pretty sure Linode moved to FMT2 because of this. There have been other problems but around 10 years ago they reached a point where the whole power backup system was new and they have only had one outage that I can remember since then.

based2 4y ago

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24536 https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/... DNS RCE

quesera 4y ago
Does Hurricane Electric run Windows DNS Server ??
- AviationAtom 4y ago
  I'd highly doubt it, but could be wrong. Perhaps someone on their team might be able to give more details, through one medium or another.

CaliforniaKarl 4y ago

The page has returned to their normal landing page, so I think service has been restored.

roastedpeacock 4y ago
Anyone have an archive of the incident notice?

based2 4y ago

https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00913 https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00913