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		piquadrat on Oct 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS putting something like `192.30.253.113 github.com` into your /etc/hosts (or other appropriate location for your OS) should get you going again.

geekamongus on Oct 21, 2016 | [–]

Careful...some people may be trying to get out of work today.

profmonocle on Oct 21, 2016 | [–]

Just remember to take it out when this is resolved. IPs shuffle around all the time, and that IP might not always work for the main github.com domain.

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