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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by lhsi on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:45PM

    by lhsi (711) on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:45PM (#14918) Journal

    The site was down earlier, including the backup address. I went to pop on to the IRC server to see if there was any information there, but couldn't connect. Does running it yourself mean there will be a single point of failure for both?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by xlefay on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:11AM

    by xlefay (65) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:11AM (#14987) Journal

    Actually, none of the IRC servers were done. Someone messed with the DNS.

    So yeah, the DNS was the real point of failure in this case.

    • (Score: 2) by xlefay on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:13AM

      by xlefay (65) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:13AM (#15018) Journal

      s/done/down/

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:37PM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:37PM (#15366) Homepage
      Next poll - should we host our own DNS... '-)
      --
      Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:59PM (#15384)

    very good point! Having a private server bound to this service kind of defeats the purpose of having an independent back channel.

    • (Score: 2) by xlefay on Wednesday March 12 2014, @05:53PM

      by xlefay (65) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @05:53PM (#15412) Journal

      I'm not sure where you got the impression I was saying anything in that direction, at all.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2014, @08:12AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2014, @08:12AM (#15760)

        single point of failure because of dependent backchannel vs. independent backchannel...

        Yes yes, you implied exactly that.

        • (Score: 2) by xlefay on Thursday March 13 2014, @08:15PM

          by xlefay (65) on Thursday March 13 2014, @08:15PM (#16070) Journal

          Correct. I misinterpreted what was being said.