DNS breakage at Samsung.com

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by Two9A • 12 years ago

10 6 12 years ago

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A friend of mine noticed that there was no A record for samsung.com; it turns out there's no SOA, or any kind of record.

Their WHOIS shows an authoritative nameserver of "dns".

pearjuice• 12 years ago

This is why I don't buy anything Samsung. If they can barely keep their company website in the air on an ordinary day, what's there to think of their actual products?

It's not just samsung.com, but their entire web presence...

notacoward• 12 years ago

A data-center fire is still something they should be able to handle (i.e. they should fail over to another DC) but if you think "ordinary day" applies here then they're not the ones Doing It Wrong.

brokenparser• 12 years ago

They were gone for a while (couldn't even query their whois record) but they're back and everything seems fine now.

Interestingly, I could still shoot them an email (perhaps because the relevant records were cached by my nameserver). Hi, Samsung!

CalumJEadie2• 12 years ago

They've been tackling a fire in one of their buildings http://inagist.com/all/457783829101428736/

CalumJEadie2• 12 years ago

Update on that story

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/20/samsung-com-outage-sds-fi...

cnvogel• 12 years ago

It's of course a tragedy if their datacenter cought fire, but it's nevertheless bad engineering if a lot of their products seem to require access to "samsung.com" for a lot of unrelated tasks (as some other site mentioned: Netflix cannot be accessed if a certain XML file cannot be fetched from www.samsung.com).

DNS breakage at Samsung.com

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