2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIt looks like Twitter is down
And has been for 35 minutes. Trump's head must be ready to explode!
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)(?)
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Just tried getting on and it wouldn't load.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Latest on my TL:
#BREAKING EU's Juncker hopes for Canada trade deal in a 'few days'
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/789439456088645632
1:13 PM - 21 Oct 2016
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)tweets from last night.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)I'm in the UK, Twitter might have CONUS problems.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)so is Disqus and some other sites. Not sure if it's an East Coast thing or what.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)I read that it shows Clinton standing over Trump, being told to "Finish Him!" like the fatality move from Mortal Kombat, and I really wanted to see that.
duncang
(1,907 posts)And moved around to different feeds seconds ago.
democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)KK9
(81 posts)Just came back up a minute ago.
The outage map I looked at a little while ago, showed it down for the US Northeast.
Wonder if someone was sick of hearing from RealDonaldTrump .
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)https://twitter.com/AFP/status/789452087209955328
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)What was really weird is on the same wireless network, my boyfriend was able to get to twitter from his laptop and I was not from mine.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)A DNS cache (sometimes called a DNS resolver cache) is a temporary database, maintained by a computer's operating system, that contains records of all recent visits and attempted visits to Web sites and other Internet domains.
The Purpose of DNS Caches
The Internet relies on the Domain Name System (DNS) to maintain an index of all public Web sites and their corresponding IP addresses. Every time a user visits a Web site by its name (such as "wireless.about.com" , the user's Web browser initiates a request out to the Internet, but this request cannot be completed until the Web site name is converted into an IP address.
That conversion process - called name resolution - is the job of DNS, and it takes time. A DNS cache attempts to speed up the process by handling the name resolution before the request is sent out to the Internet.
https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-dns-cache-817514
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Links not loading....embedded pics just showing up as empty squares....wonder if there was any correlation?
Weird day...
randome
(34,845 posts)Several websites including Twitter and Tumblr were unreachable during an extended period for many internet users Friday following an online attack.
Web technology provider Dyn said its domain name system, or DNS, service was subject to a massive distributed denial-of-service attack starting at 7:10 a.m. on Friday.
Denial of service attacks can knock websites offline by flooding them with junk data, blocking the way for...
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Coyotl
(15,262 posts)(((Uncle John))) @azmoderate 27 seconds ago
Fortunately the only bombs Trump will ever drop will be as a comedian #AlSmithDinner @SMShow @frangeladuo