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March 26, 2015

DNS Routing Problem on Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, several DNS servers were having trouble resolving domain names. I first noticed this when visiting Daring Fireball. I was not able to load the site on my iPhone, which is on T-Mobile network. By 4:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, I was still unable to access Daring Fireball on my iPhone. I took the screenshot and tweeted:

If I had to guess, it might be DNS issue with T-Mobile. @gruber

DaringFireball T-Mobile DNS

Two hours later I noticed that I still couldn’t access Daring Fireball. This time I was using the office network; connected through AT&T DSL. We could only get AT&T in this particular area. Then I tweeted to John Gruber:

It seems @daringfireball is still down. @gruber

Within 3 minutes, Gruber replied:

@iVeryAm No, my site is up. There are internet-wide routing problems, alas: http://www.internethealthreport.com

Daring Fireball is still down

When I arrived at a colleague’s residence, I was able to to load Daring Fireball site through Verizon FiOS.

Later on, Ben Drago replied:

@gruber @iVeryAm It looks like Google’s DNS servers are not resolving http://daringfireball.net . Working OK w/ @OpenDNS pic.twitter.com/O9SSCGuFb3

Ben Drago Google DNS has a problem

I tested a few DNS servers and some of them were having the same issues with Google DNS.

At the time of this post, the issue persists on some DNS servers.

June 30, 2011

Credit where credit is due.

John Gruber of Daring Fireball points out the importance of giving credit properly.

It is just plain annoying when mainstream news media picked up a story without giving the proper credit to the original writer. It is not that hard to mention the name or the site.

Sadly mainstream news media site are raking in a lot more oney than the average sites and blogs.

April 14, 2010

Congratulations, Gizmodo for jumping into conclusion. At least you made a retraction.

UPDATE Again:
The post is back-up on Gizmodo.

UPDATE:
Apparently Gizmodo is deleting the post. Unfortunately I haven’t found any cached version of the page.
http://www.google.com/search?q=How+Apple+Screws+Every+Ebook+App+But+iBooks.

But there’s a copy of it posted here.

The piece was (hastily) written by Wilson Rothman.

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Gotta love John Grubber for being “insightful and not negative.” He’s just good at being sarcastic. Gruber pointed out the hidden Gem that Gizmodo is.

As always, Apple haters already jumped on the poorly-written-angst-driven-Apple-Hating-Paul-Thurrottesque story that Gizmodo ran about How Apple Screws Every Ebook App But iBooks. Great one Wilson, the Apple Haters took the bait. What? It’s not a bait. Well, at least you made a retraction and left your original post.

Maybe Gizmodo should give Paul Thurrott a call, your Apple Trolling skill is a bit rusty. For sure Thurrott can help you in that subject. But if you’re making Thurrott your staff then you’d be employing a Microsoft employee. Wait, what? Thurrott is not Microsoft Employee? Ah he’s just an independent Microsoft P.R. agent. Got it.