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Re: FYI Netflix is down
From: James Downs <egon () egon cc>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 12:08:18 -0700
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Paul Graydon wrote:
back-plane / control-plane was unable to cope with the requests. Netflix uses Amazon's ELB to balance the traffic and no back-plane meant they were unable to reconfigure it to route around the problem.
Someone needs to define back-plane/control-plane in this case. (and what wasn't working) During the height of the problems, what I saw was a Netflix A record pointing at a broken ELB. If there was an ELB to point to in another AZ, it wouldn't take anything from Amazon to change that A record, as Netflix uses ultradns. -j
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- RE: FYI Netflix is down Dan Golding (Jul 03)
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