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ffk
on Aug 17, 2013
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Google goes dark for 2 minutes
What I find amazing is google recovered so quickly. Extended outages are often caused by the horde of systems all attempting to reconnect at once.
InclinedPlane
on Aug 17, 2013
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At which point all the traffic causes another outage so they can't reconnect, so they timeout for a fixed amount of time and then try back again all at the same time...
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