<story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>https://github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitbasher</author><text>The timing is pretty uncanny. I just deployed a github page and had a DNS issue because I configured it wrong. I hit &amp;quot;check again&amp;quot; and github went down.&lt;p&gt;Hope I don&amp;#x27;t appear in the incident report.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunrunner</author><text>Perhaps this is a repeat of the Fastly incident with a customer&amp;#x27;s Varnish cache configuration causing an issue in their systems (I think this is a rough summary, I don&amp;#x27;t remember the details).&lt;p&gt;So, you&amp;#x27;re both responsible and not responsible at the same time :)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Hope I don&amp;#x27;t appear in the incident report.&lt;p&gt;Appearing in an incident report with your HN username could be pretty funny...</text></comment>
<story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>https://github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitbasher</author><text>The timing is pretty uncanny. I just deployed a github page and had a DNS issue because I configured it wrong. I hit &amp;quot;check again&amp;quot; and github went down.&lt;p&gt;Hope I don&amp;#x27;t appear in the incident report.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RIMR</author><text>This will all clear up when it finishes checking your DNS configuration I bet.</text></comment>