DNS server issues

Indeed. Now I’m actually gonna have to start faving images. The audacity!

OK, everything should be functionally back to normal now. The DNS machine also managed load balancing, so that dying is the reason slowdowns and an earlier desync (apparent loss of stuff, now back).
 
The machine itself is still down, apparently for other reasons now (yay…) so slowness and random double posts will still be a thing.

@sargesprinkles  
try removing the s in https, I can’t get in with my mobile on https either.

Is there a difference between the .ru and .org domain? Because I log in with the .ru DNS. And it sounded like the .org domain worked better, or was this just in this one case today/yesterday?

Some guy on Ponychan joked about Hasbro C & D Derpibooru and it resulted in panic.

DNS issues should be resolved now. HOWEVER, there’s still significant slowdown due to how that machine’s failure impacted the main machines. In addition, the host for our primary servers is playing around with their network links, dropping an abnormally high load on the datacenter we’re in, which is messing with things even further.
 
Fun times.

Notification busted again…

Raishan: I get “Unable to connect” on .ru and .org. If I go to the ip I can connect, but when I click Login I get a 404. That sort of kills anything other that “safe” graphics …

@Background Pony  
Some people aren’t able to connect at all.

Sorry for the double post. But…
 
Will the images that have “disappeared” return? Or do we have to manually re-post them?

@SeraphimDawn  
They will return.

SeraphimDawn: Did my images make it okay?
 
Princess Celestia: Your images will live.
 
SeraphimDawn: {joyous scream w/ angelic choir}

Everything should be okay at this point.
 
If you are experiencing issues, please shout.
 
There will be a detailed what-went-wrong post on the news blog in the next few days.

I’m still seeing a desync. Do we just have to wait for the image listings to magically restore the “missing” images? I know they’re still hosted and extant on the server, comments and all, but with nothing linking to them they may as well be lost.

>>379704, among others, is still not visible in searches.

@Background Pony  
@FredMSloniker
 
We’re going be gradually “manually” refresh everything in the database, which should do the trick, but due to the resources required will not be immediate.