On 2/7/13, Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@ixreach.com> wrote:
On 8 February 2013 01:47, Corey Quinn <corey@sequestered.net> wrote:
On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@ixreach.com> The problem here is that 8.8.8.8 as well as many large web sites are
It's possible, but you're not going to be able to calculate what percentage of users it's down for; and 5% could be a significant outage/issue, if you can confirm a service so large is out for 5% of users, where that 5% is a state or a large population, then I would say it falls under significant traffic capacity. It's possible that 8.8.8.8 could be down for larger percentages as well; distributed does not mean immune to outages. Distributed applications fail and go down systemically, sometimes with even more troublesome failure scenarios than localized applications. Such reports have some potential importance; assuming appropriate effort was undertaken to confirm.
Hence we have issues reported which result in large threads which end up being of little use to anyone, even the users of those apps.
I can't really comment on the long threads, as they were too long, so I didn't read them. I don't see exactly a flood of noise here, however. It's probably not unreasonable to suggest ignoring threads with 'Facebook' in the subject line; if you don't believe it counts as significant traffic capacity, or whichever $criteria_of_the_day you want to add; the signal to noise may not be perfect, but it's not that bad.. -- -JH