- Joined
- Dec 28, 2014
It was a DNS problem, meaning you could solve it in literally 5 minutes by switching to Google's DNS services, which my grandpa could do. Software Engineer, everyone.
Things like Twitter really rely on everyone else also being able to connect to them. If you can connect to Twitter to see a completely dead feed, because Twitter itself is broken as a result of it, it doesn't really help you.
(For your own personal mitigation, you might want to install BIND as a caching only server so you at least have access to IPs for sites you use regularly even if DNS is entirely down.)