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Comment by mikemcquaid | Hacker News Reader

GitHub employee here. We're monitoring an incident with our upstream DNS provider:

Hahahahaha you do realize Twitter is one of the affected sites, right?

Exactly, I see tweet in Google SERPS for GitHub , I try to access and twitter too is down like Github.

not very useful to post a status update on a site that is experiencing the same issues with the same DNS provider.

maybe post a github gist? oh wait...

Should there be a global internet status page at an easily memorizable "vanity" IP address?

Seriously, just like the 8.8.8.8 name server. I used to work at a place where the firewall blocked accessing pages by IP though.

> our upstream DNS provider

Maybe you should have more than one. Then I could actually carry out my work...

Can you CC on HN, twitter doesn't work for people as well. HN seems to be fine.

> We're monitoring an incident with our upstream DNS provider.

This link seems to work for me to reach the github status page (requires https certificate override, of course):

Can we add a line to our /etc/hosts file with a hard-coded DNS entry to fix it in the meantime? What's the IP address?

For me (EU) github.com resolves to 192.30.253.112.

Added these to my hosts file. Working fine as a temporary workaround.

199.16.156.70 twitter.com

104.244.43.231 abs.twimg.com

104.244.43.231 pbs.twimg.com

192.30.253.113 github.com

151.101.24.133 assets-cdn.github.com

I looked up an ip for twitter (via a google search) and still timeout on pings.

[edit: twitter and github are both accessible again.]

For me it resolves to 192.30.253.113

that's github.

sadly Twitter is also down...

github homepage is unicorn now