remember folks, redundancy is the savior of all f***ups. :) On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:21 PM, JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:
I just waited 160 minutes for a tech call and the Bluehost tech told me he was able to confirm that it wasn't malicious activity that took down the datacenter but rather it was caused by a "datacenter issue". So my first thought is someone didn't design the topology correctly or something. Some of our emails are coming thru but Google DNS still lost all of our DNS zones which are hosted by Bluehost. At least the #bluehostdown is fun to read :/ -- Later, Joe
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 08:41:55AM -0800, JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote a message of 9 lines which said:
Anyone have the scope on the outage for Bluehost? https://twitter.com/search?q=%23bluehostdown&src=tyah
The two name servers ns1.bluehost.com and ns2.bluehost.com are awfully slow to respond:
% check-soa -i picturemotion.com ns1.bluehost.com. 74.220.195.31: OK: 2012092007 (1382 ms) ns2.bluehost.com. 69.89.16.4: OK: 2012092007 (1388 ms)
As a result, most clients timeout.
May be a DoS against the name servers?
bluehost.com itself is DNS-hosted on a completely different architecture. So it works fine. But the nginx Web site replies 502 Gateway timeout, probably overloaded by all the clients trying to get informed.
The Twitter accounts of Bluehost do not distribute any useful information.