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Everything is down. How can this happen? Many of these services are unrelated, like even the brand-new Codespaces and Copilot are completely down. Do they all h

Everything is down. How can this happen? Many of these services are unrelated, like even the brand-new Codespaces and Copilot are completely down. Do they all have a single point of failure? (Presumably the git server)

ehayes 3y ago
Yeah but they probably all share DNS or something related to networking
zackkitzmiller 3y ago
DNS. It's always DNS
- capableweb 3y ago
  When in doubt, and the outage is widespread it's either DNS or BGP, most likely DNS. My money is also on DNS in this case.
  - TimWolla 3y ago
    I suspect you'd lose that money. Many of the recent GitHub outages were caused by database issues. Examples: https://github.blog/2023-05-03-github-availability-report-april-2023/ https://github.blog/2023-05-03-github-availability-report-ap.... In fact last march they specifically mentioned “Database stability”: https://github.blog/2022-04-06-github-availability-report-march-2022/ https://github.blog/2022-04-06-github-availability-report-ma...
- jallen_dot_dev 3y ago
  It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS
brookst 3y ago
DNS, BGP, PKI, probably other TLAs.
WookieRushing 3y ago
My bet is on cache servers having a bad release