Outages can have many origins but the most important question, from a statistical research point of view is:
Was it DNS?
For those new to the channel, or from the future, we are referring to the Winter Outage of June 2025.
Domain Name System - Wikipedia is suspect, but Dr Google lists many similar links
It’s not DNS
There’s no way it’s DNS
It was DNS
A haiku.
Author: Vivek Gite, NixCraft