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Retric on Oct 5, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook-owned sites were down

I’ve setup hosts files in case DNS was down to access critical systems before. It’s a perfectly reasonable precaution.

edoceo on Oct 5, 2021 [–]

My small org, maybe 50 ips/hosts we care about, maintain a hosts file stills, for those nodes public and internal names. It's in Git, spread around and we also have our fingers crossed.

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