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[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 203 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 121 points 2 days ago (1 children)

can confirm, its always DNS. Even when it looks like a network issue, its DNS

[–] aarRJaay@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oh man. One of my old companies, the Devs would always blame the network. Even after we spent a year upgrading and removing all SPOFs. They’d blame the network…..

“Your application is somehow producing 2 billion packets per second and your SQL queries are returning 5GB of data”…. “See! The network is too slow and it has problems”

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

Dev: My app's getting a 400 hitting the server. Your firewall changes broke it.

Me: You're getting to the server, it's giving you back a malformed request error. Most likely it's a problem in your client.

Dev: it worked fine until you made that change in QA.

Me: Your server is in production.

After that, I just get too busy to look at it for a while.... They figure it out eventually.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

They might be referring to their brain network being to slow and having problems.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, klugerblickdummkopf

[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I always view the source of websites like this and this is one of the worst I've seen. 217 lines of code (including inline Javascript?!) and a Google tag for some reason, all to put the word YES in green on black.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this made me mad so i made a single, ultra minimal html page in 5 minutes that you can just paste in your url box

data:text/html;base64,PCFkb2N0eXBlaHRtbD48Ym9keSBzdHlsZT10ZXh0LWFsaWduOmNlbnRlcjtmb250LWZhbWlseTpzYW5zLXNlcmlmO2JhY2tncm91bmQ6IzAwMDtjb2xvcjojMmYyPjxoMT5JcyBpdCBETlM/PC9oMT48cCBzdHlsZT1mb250LXNpemU6MTJyZW0+WWVz

source code:

<!doctypehtml><body style=text-align:center;font-family:sans-serif;background:#000;color:#2f2><h1>Is it DNS?</h1><p style=font-size:12rem>Yes
[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Your website no longer uses DNS invalidating its use as a diagnostic tool lmao

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 8 hours ago

i never thought about that. i assumed the first page was just a joke website like "days since last JavaScript framework" always being zero

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I just did the same f'ing thing and came here to write your comment!

well done.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 28 points 2 days ago

Agreed, could be static HTML and a GIF.

Thanks, I won't click that link.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lmao, considering some of the meaningless comments there i'm starting to think it's "vibe coded".

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

There have been 209 versions of that site

https://web.archive.org/web/20250331043558/https://www.isitdns.com/

it predated AI, but likely seems to have had some AI cleanup.

If it was truly just vibecoded, the comments would usually be on every element.

[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did not think of doing that.

I guess i never expected anyone to have a fcking JavaScript on a simple page as that

[–] Dubiousx99@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

It’s always DNS