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Do they never learn? I am suddenly remebering distant flashbacks to 2001 when microsoft wiped out hotmail for 24hrs with a massive DNS screw-up:

CNET: Microsoft blames technicians for massive outage (2001) http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-251427.html

Wired: How, Why Microsoft Went Down (2001) http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/01/41412?...

Can you imagine in those days, everyone was on hotmail, gmail hadn't even been invented yet.



I'm curious about the cause, but it's funny to see "Do they never learn?" + links from 12 years ago.


And that's why I run my own mail server nowadays. Privacy, control over data, and at least I'm responsible for my own downtime without impacting more than a few people. Decentralisation for the win, in my opinion.

Also credits to my ISP for allowing hosting of my own server, running native IPv6 and of course opening port 25. Xs4all is a really cool ISP to have in the Netherlands :)


Xs4all is a really cool ISP to have in the Netherlands :)

I heard they had gone downhill recent years, resembling more of the regular commercial ISPs, but good to see they still have something going for them.

We definitely need more ISPs like this.




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