Is Heroku’s DNS down again?

[ezekg]

Our production services just went down again due to DNS. Anybody else?

[cercatrova]

At this point, why even use Heroku? I'd be looking to migrate away as fast as possible after all the recent events in the past few years.

[__pache__ → cercatrova]

that's where my company is heading :( probably going to use render.com ... ugh, I don't want Heroku to fail.....

[nbarbettini]

Now posted as an issue on status.heroku: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2454

[bennylope]

I noticed this trying to get to the Heroku homepage, then checking another couple Heroku hosted sites I know of. Neither this nor the prior DNS issue affected our applications using CloudFront however.

[ezekg]

Seemed to be short lived for us. Total 5 mins downtime.

[MuffinFlavored]

"they figured why give it away for free and pulled the plug" /s

[drcongo]

We had a site on CloudFlare lose its DNS settings earlier, I seem to remember them emailing us about upgrading their DNS systems so maybe it's all related.

[rohitpaulk]

Interestingly, one of our Vercel apps was down too (got alerts for both app.codecrafters.io and codecrafters.io at the same time) - might've been a wider DNS outage? Resolved in 4 minutes for us.

[ezekg → rohitpaulk]

Perhaps another NS1 outage? That’s what took down Heroku last time.

Looks like it: https://ns1status.com/#!/incident/367771

[jesprenj → ezekg]

What's NS1? Is it related to the root zone hosting or is this just a company with a funny name?

[Ayesh → jesprenj]

They are a DNS hosting company that has been there for like, forever, since the days of zoneedit. Think AWS Route53, but run by a different company that only has that product. Clever name, "NS1", named after the ns1, ns2. etc domain names that are used for nameservers.

[iJohnDoe → Ayesh]

Never heard of NS1, but if they are one of the veterans, then there should probably be concern on why they are having problems?

[mattl → Ayesh]

It feels confusing to everyone who isn’t a customer of them I think

[rohitpaulk → ezekg]

Good find!

[jeff_dev]

Yes,it's down again

[lsevero]

at this point it is better to move to a self-hosted dokku at once.

[richardg]

yup - their site is down