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lostinfog@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

My former company had a .bb domain for internal services because it rhymed with the name. We had constant outages whenever a storm was hitting Barbados…

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bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Interesting, that’s not something I ever thought about. I just looked up the nameservers for .bb:

;; ANSWER SECTION: bb. 86400 IN NS ns5.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns3.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns2.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns1.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns4.nic.bb. bb. 86400 IN NS ns6.nic.bb.

It seems like ns1.nic.bb doesn’t resolve, and for 2-6, they’re all in either 64.68.192.0/20 or 64.119.192.0/20, so it does look like a small concentration in root nameservers which could be unavailable in a storm.
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- lostinfog@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Some times someone’s clever joke can have unforeseen consequences. There must be a razor for that. Or at least a xkcd comic.
  
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