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UPDATE: RESOLVED according to the AWS status page -- 6:24 PM PST Between 4:12 PM and 6:02 PM PST, users experienced elevated error rates when making DNS queries for CloudFront distributions. The service has recovered and is operating normally. [2]

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Cloudfront DNS is hosed. Doing a DNS lookup on my cloudfront distribution fails. Many folks on Twitter also see the issue too [1]. Maybe a failed upgrade or something, their whois info was updated today @ 2014-11-26T16:24:49-0800.

  [~]$ host d1cg27r99kkbpq.cloudfront.net
  Host d1cg27r99kkbpq.cloudfront.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=cloudfront

[2] http://status.aws.amazon.com/

The AWS status page not showing anything isn't unusual. They'll probably update in half an hour to describe it as a partial failure then revise it to an "all OK" 10 minutes before it's actually fixed then retroactively downgrade it to a minor quality of service disruption.

Not that I've noticed they tend to lie through their teeth on the status page or anything....

Apparently, "DNS resolution errors" are considered neither a "service disruption" nor a "performance issue", but instead are categorized as an "informational message."

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