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Oh man, these global outages are really getting out of hand. A few days after the recent AWS and Azure outages, I suddenly noticed that I couldn't reach certain webpages anymore. And I genuinely didn't even bother trying to debug, because I just assumed that it's another global outage.
In the evening, I did look into it and noticed that my router was at fault (presumably DNS got bugged by a recent update). That was just wild to me, that I genuinely deemed it more likely that several major webpages went offline together than that my home setup is fucky.
To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]
Sometimes it's BGP.
Well yeah. Yourrouter is managed by a person. We aren't as good at fucking up as mega corps.
I mean, sure, I do understand what's happening on a logical level. I'm just so baffled, because this whole internet thingamabob was architected by the military.
It was intentionally built, so that parts of it could fail without disrupting the rest. When a corporation fucks up, it was supposed to take down the servers of that corporation, not also a good chunk of the rest.
But unfortunately, this internet thingamabob is merely the closest approximation we have for the "perfect market" that economics theory calls for, so it still doesn't actually self-regulate like that whole theory would love to believe.
In fact, it is so much worse, because now monopolization happens across the whole planet. Particularly also because we don't have a functioning "world government" that could enforce competition at that level via laws.
So, the network leads to companies monopolizing on top of it and then monopolies necessitate that the respective companies do as poor of a job as possible, because this reduces costs and increases profits. As a result, major parts of this military-grade internet now falter every few weeks.
Yep. The resilient system got corrupted by capitalism, which is an inherently monopolizing centralizing destabilizing enshittifying exploitation algorithm.