Square says daylong outage caused by DNS error | TechCrunch
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The payment giant said there was no evidence a cyberattack caused an outage that left small businesses unable to process payments.
  • hallettj@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh no! I’m gonna guess that lots of DNS caches picked up the bad configuration, and they couldn’t do anything but wait about 86400 seconds for those caches to expire. Caching is so hard!