Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Back in September, IBM was left red-faced when its global load balancer and reverse DNS services fell over for 21 hours.
At the time, IBM blamed the outage on a third-party domain name registrar that was transferring some domains to another registrar. The sending registrar, IBM said, accidentally put the domains in a "hold state" that prevented them being transferred. As the load balancer and reverse DNS service relied on the domains in question, the services became inaccessible to customers.
IBM's now released an incident summary [PDF] in which it says "multiple domain names were mistakenly allowed to expire and were in hold status."
The explanation also reveals that the network-layer.net domain was caught up in the mess, in addition to the global-datacenter.com and global-datacenter.net domains that IBM reported as messed up in September.
It's unclear if IBM or its outsourced registrar was responsible for the failure to renew registration for the domains.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @06:40PM (15 children)
Blockchain will fix the cloud. Blockchain will fix the DNS. Blockchain will fix every thing.
Block! chain! Block! chain! Block! chain!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Tuesday October 24 2017, @06:50PM (2 children)
Not even Blockchain can fix stupid.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:37PM
Oh yeah? Here, hold my beer ...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by krishnoid on Tuesday October 24 2017, @09:26PM
For that, you'll need blockheadchain.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @06:55PM (7 children)
Next time, don't be such a doofus.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:09PM (6 children)
You're totally right. The only way to succeed at anything is to be an early adopter before the establishment close ranks and shout, "FUCK YOU GOT MY BTC!"
Funny that's exactly how old money capitalists behave with real money.
You're better, how, motherfucker?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:16PM (5 children)
Capitalism is voluntary exchange; it doesn't matter whether you're worth billions or 2 cents.
Nobody forces anybody to do anything.
You don't like the factory? Don't work there.
The factory is the only place to work? Be thankful there's a factory.
Quit being bitter. It's just proof that you're useless both to yourself and to the rest of us.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by DannyB on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:20PM (4 children)
It should be against the law for poor people to commit crimes.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:33PM (2 children)
It's not people being poor that results in crime. Rather, it's crime that results in people being poor.
Wealth creation is a matter of organization and planning, and you can either work with existing societal institutions (including corporations), or you can work against them. If you're bitter, it's only because you're too entitled or too lazy to respect other people, and thus to work with them through voluntary exchange.
So, to echo the other, bitter AC: "You're better, how, motherfucker?" Give up your bitterness, and make something of yourself.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:50PM (1 child)
How about you fucking eat a dick?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:57PM
Next time, don't be such a doofus.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Wednesday October 25 2017, @05:38AM
Yeah, clearly only rich people should be allowed to commit crimes. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Touché) by SomeGuy on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:03PM (1 child)
Is blockchain in the cloud? If so, then yes they should use it and put it in the cloud. In fact, it sounds like IBM should have put that DNS thingy in the cloud and then they would not have had any of these problems.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:41PM
*face palm*
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:06PM
Next time, don't be such a doofus.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:20PM
Next time, don't be such a doofus.