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[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

Oh no. Who’s gonna help elect republicans now?

[–] muse@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

oh no, anyway

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can you imagine if your entire country lost access to the Internet all at once at the same time? Pandemonium.

Except for Russia I guess. Or North Korea.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would be extremely interesting to see what kind traffic dip there was on x-twitter after that happened though.

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Don't worry. There are enough useful idiots outside Russia parroting their propaganda already. We barely even need their help at this point.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

This is such a nothing burger. I know it sounds impressive, but this happens quite a lot all over the globe, and it usually gets resolved quite quickly (usually minutes). Packet routing faults are not as uncommon as one may think, especially when ISPs are playing around with their networking stack. Especially DNS related faults. Just two weeks ago Deutsche Telekom managed to take down our entire internet infrastructure (at a big German company) because they were playing around with their DNS. Hell, even service providers like AWS can take down a huge chunk of a country's internet (and this has happened in 2021 in the US). AWS owns over 33% of the global cloud infrastructure market.

[–] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[–] mhague@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It's weird that the article doesn't say when it happened, just that officials said things 'later Tuesday '. Was it a blip or all day outage?

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

DNSSEC failure last I saw.

[–] myrdinn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It was me. I bumped the cable and it fell out of the router. Sorry guys.