Apparently a handful of customers using Cloudflare for DNS, and specifically CNAME records experienced a brief outage of name resolution services on New Year’s. I found the reason why to be rather interesting. Devs at cloudflare assumed time can’t move backwards… An understandable assumption but actually faulty because of leap seconds… Anyhow, if you do programming you might find the root cause analysis for this hiccup to be interesting and informative:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/
Well worth a quick read. No, unfortunately it didn’t have anything to do with Dark Matter and/or what happens were a black hole and a Delorian traveling at 88 mph suddenly to meet while Superman flies around the planet at light speed. But, it is still curious enough all the same. Happy New Year… Sanitize your outputs…