.ML TLD Outage

6 points by simbakhadder 6 years ago

Woke up to clients reporting issues this morning hitting our service triton.ml

After a lot of digging we learned that it was DNS issues affecting our site.

Then we learned it's the whole .ML domain on Google DNS 8.8.8.8

"dig @8.8.8.8 google.ml" fails.

Wow, this is unbelievably specific.

We were facing the exact same issue this morning with our own .ml domain - one of our engineers was accessing it no problem from 1.1.1.1 but another couldn't see it with 8.8.8.8. After a couple hours of trying to figure it out we figured it was just some configuration we botched, somehow, with Google but _Google having an outage_ makes a lot more sense.

rahuldottech 6 years ago |

For those unaware, .ml is the TLD for Mali, and you can get a domain for free from https://www.freenom.com/

FWIW, it works for me on 1.1.1.1 DNS

simbakhadder 6 years ago | |

Also looks like machine learning which is why we chose it. Couldn't imagine it ever becoming an issue like today.

amyriad 6 years ago |

My .ml domain also fails randomly, and .ga site obtained from freenom does not have this dns resolving problem.

spanner1122 6 years ago |

Thank god I'm not the only one