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[–] 53 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Luckily DNS is somewhat decentralized.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, I don't get the point of including a protocol together with 3 big corpos. Use a recursive resolver (with caching) instead of a forwarding one, and it's fully decentralised at the TLD level. If the root nameservers or .com's stop responding, either your uplink is down or the internet as we know it has ended

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    It’s still always DNS for some reason

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    "It can't be DNS!"

    "... It was DNS."

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    for some reason

    You mean things tend to fail at the highly redundant eventually consistent format-agnostic global distributed database and not on the stateless data transformers?

    Who could have guessed?

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Let it fall. People will then finally understand that this solution is not good. Decentraltion is the original design of the Internet.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago

    The internet was originally decentralized, but there is a reason why we changed to centralized.

    Because the ability to fend off DDoS attacks, being able to use easy to remember words instead of numbers, and all the other centralized things makes everything easier and more robust.

    You can still setup your decentralized internet, maybe throw in some blockchain, but nobody will want to use it because of all the disadvantages.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Thank fuck nobody uses Google

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

    ...would these beans actually do much of anything to hold up this legobrick building?

    Edit: I'm not fixing it

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I’m also wondering what’s the story behind this pic. I don’t think I’d want to park my car there or be standing there, hard hat or not.

    And it seems like that structure would be damaged beyond the point where you could right it again by pulling it back up.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Ok but wtf is actually going on in this picture

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Man, I sure hope DNS doesn't go bust

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    I wonder if it's because these services are trying to integrate AI.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    It's a good thing those guys are wearing hard hats.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    one of those is not like the others

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Did not know DNS is a company. I would probably put Akamai there or Fastly.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That’s a shitty analogy, at least for yesterday’s outage. The sites behind cloudflare were working, they were just inaccessible because of cloudflare’s fuck up.

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  • [+] -10 points 11 months ago*

    Oh God, the Internet fails in big chunks instead piece by piece on random days, the fucking horror.

    Despite them being bastards, the Internet is more stable than ever because of them.

    Do you even know how to calculate error budgets?

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