People probably ran into this all the time, but no single party large enough to have it gain attention produced the failure state.
If a small business or cloud app can't resolve a domain because the domain is doing something different, it's much easier to blame DNS, use another DNS server, and move on. Or maybe just go "some Linuxes can't reach my website, oh well, sucks for the 1-3%".
Cloudflare is large enough that they caused issues for millions of devices all at once, so they had to investigate.
What's unclear to me is if they bothered to send patches to broken open-source DNS resolvers to fix this issue in the future.
If a small business or cloud app can't resolve a domain because the domain is doing something different, it's much easier to blame DNS, use another DNS server, and move on. Or maybe just go "some Linuxes can't reach my website, oh well, sucks for the 1-3%".
Cloudflare is large enough that they caused issues for millions of devices all at once, so they had to investigate.
What's unclear to me is if they bothered to send patches to broken open-source DNS resolvers to fix this issue in the future.