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wtf is this "general internet outage" that Discord's been struck by, I'm confused
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Nvm, I looked it up and apparently it's a glitch with servers not having enough memory to store all the IP addresses of the routers people use to connect to their services, so now it's overflowing and causing issues so everybody has to update their servers to add a new, higher limit on the storage for IP addresses.
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Your router's IP address is what lets a server find your wi-fi network and send you information to run whatever service they're giving you, like Discord or a game server. The servers need to store that address so that they know how to find your network if they need to send you information at any given time. The problem is that the servers for a lot of big companies don't have enough space to store all the IP addresses that they need to hold on to, which means they have to delete some of them, causing problems for the people attached to those addresses. I'm pretty sure most of these services have only gone down because they need to update their servers to give them more memory for storing IP addresses, which would fix the issue.
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