Networking Intermediate About 30 min +210 XP

External Hostnames Stop Resolving

billing-sync fails every export to the payments API, and no external hostname resolves on the host.

Stage 3 of 4 in Network Response Ladder.

Briefing

The network migration moved this host to a new subnet, and within minutes billing-sync began logging name resolution failures for the payments API.

The resolver at 10.0.0.1 still answers ping, which convinced the first responder that DNS was fine and the payments provider was down.

The migration notes in /home/user were written in a hurry.

The fix is yours to find: hints, the recovery checks and the debrief unlock inside the incident.

How it plays

  1. 01

    Get paged

    The alert fires and the clock starts. Read the page and the briefing.

  2. 02

    Investigate

    Work in a simulated shell with realistic output: logs, configs, services.

  3. 03

    Fix it

    Change the system the way you would in production. Hints are there if you get stuck.

  4. 04

    Prove it

    Automated checks verify the recovery, then the debrief explains what happened.

Your pager is ready.

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