FYI Netflix is down

Mon Jul 9 17:20:21 UTC 2012

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 15:50 UTC, Rayson Ho wrote:
> There are also bugs from the Netflix side uncovered by the AWS outage:
>
> "Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Storm"
>
> http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-storm.html

"We continue to investigate why these connections were timing out
during connect, rather than quickly determining that there was no
route to the unavailable hosts and failing quickly."

potential translation:

"We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot by filtering all ICMP
without understanding the implications."

Cheers,
Dave Hart