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Comment by anderskaseorg | Hacker News Reader

The latter.

    $ dig +short discord.com ns
    sima.ns.cloudflare.com.
    gabe.ns.cloudflare.com.

8.8.8.8 is Google and is down in addition to Cloudflare. 8.8.4.4 was still up.

8.8.8.8 is a caching resolver and it wasn't down. Do you understand how caching resolvers work?