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Place those bets, was it BGP? My money is always on BGP somehow.

5xx responses mostly come from their own server implying that we are able to reach them. Unlikely to be a routing error.

BGP problems will usually manifest as something being unreachable. This seems to be 500 errors which suggest code breaking somewhere.

I was getting mostly 502's indicating their reverse proxies couldn't reach the back end so it's very possible an internal routing issue was at fault.

Misconfiguration at GFE control plane?

Maybe someone tried to resurrect the Search Timer code [0].

I'll place bets on that.

A) Googler B) it wasn't DNS or BGP

My bet:

It’s not DNS

There is a no way it’s DNS

It was DNS

it was not DNS

Wonder if it had anything to do with char broiling a few of their electricians this morning.

Say what??

(sorry for msn link, archiving on phone is rough)

Yes, that. People downvote anything these days.

>People downvote anything these days.

Maybe because you said something crudely insensitive in a community that might know the victims, and definitely includes people who do similar jobs?

I hope none of your friends or family ever get char broiled.

Yeah, Hacker News that bastion of tolerance and civility is aghast at gallows humor. I'm shocked! Shocked I say!

Oh well, I guess shitting all over women and minorities in tech is a more comfortable target for this demographic.