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McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure (www.cnn.com)

submitted 5 months ago by dominiquec to c/technology

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McDonald’s was hit by a system failure Friday that closed restaurants and disrupted online and app orders around the world, including in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

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[–] paridoxical 76 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Ten bucks says it was a DNS issue.

[–] 3volver 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“This issue was not directly caused by a cybersecurity event; rather, it was caused by a third-party provider during a configuration change.”

Sounds probable.

[–] FenrirIII 4 points 5 months ago

I swear I didn't delete the raid config.

[–] thesystemisdown 28 points 5 months ago

Or an upstream certificate expired.

[–] Docus 17 points 5 months ago

Or it’s cousin BGP

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Always

[–] DetachablePianist 3 points 5 months ago

...it was DNS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's not DNS

There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS