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ajrossyesterday at 7:51 PM1 replyview on HN

That's true, but sort of misses the spirit of Hyrum's law (which is that the world is filled with obscure edge cases).

In this case the broken resolver was the one in the GNU C Library, hardly an obscure situation!

The news here is sort of buried in the story. Basically Cloudflare just didn't test this. Literally every datacenter in the world was going to fail on this change, probably including their own.


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black3ryesterday at 11:41 PM

> Literally every datacenter in the world was going to fail on this change

I would expect most datacenters to use their own local recursive caching DNS servers instead of relying on 1.1.1.1 to minimize latency.