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		bawolff on Oct 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update about the October 4th outage Lots of people blaming dns

pbhjpbhj on Oct 5, 2021 | [–]

I think mainstream news sources either used "DNS" as a term for routing internet traffic because most people haven't heard of BGP or come across autonomous systems (AS), or because they genuinely thought reports of routing issues meant it was DNS.

unethical_ban on Oct 5, 2021 | [–]

BGP took out their DNS. It isn't entirely wrong.

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