Posted on 10/04/2021 1:04:50 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
DNS appears to be a symptom of the root cause of Facebook's global failure. Don't expect a quick fix.
The old network troubleshooting saying is, when anything goes wrong, "It's DNS." This time Domain Name Server (DNS) appears to be the symptom of the root cause of the Facebook global failure.
The true cause is that there are no working Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook's sites.
BGP is the standardized exterior gateway protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between the internet top-level autonomous systems (AS).
Most people, indeed most network administrators, never need to deal with BGP.
Many people spotted that Facebook was no longer listed on DNS. Indeed, there were joke posts offering to sell you the Facebook.com domain.
Cloud fare VP Dane Knecht was the first to report the underlying BGP problem.
This meant, as Kevin Beaumont, former Microsoft's Head of Security Operations Centre, tweeted, "By not having BGP announcements for your DNS name servers, DNS falls apart = nobody can find you on the internet.
Same with WhatsApp btw. Facebook have basically deplatformed themselves from their own platform."
Whoops.
As annoying as this is to you, it may be even more annoying to Facebook employees.
There are reports that Facebook employees can't enter their buildings because their "smart" badges and doors were also disabled by this network failure. If true, Facebook's people literally can't enter the building to fix things.
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
if it was an attack. it was friendly fire.
Exactly.
Tom Anderson, please pick up the courtesy phone
“There are reports that Facebook employees can’t enter their buildings because their “smart” badges and doors were also disabled by this network failure. If true, Facebook’s people literally can’t enter the building to fix things.”
For offices, they can break windas. For more secure structure, they can still force their way in (if they borrow some American tanks from the Taliban, at least).
What would be more interesting is whether the utility (i.e., cooling) systems are down in their buildings. Then they’re really hosed!
That will teach them not to mess with Deep Sate.
“How will I ever know what my friends had for breakfast?”
No kidding! I’ll have to Facetime my Sister if this keeps up, LOL!
The longer the world is without Facebook, the better.
Hopefully people will see their world didn’t end with Facebook being down, and will cancel their facebook.
maybe people will figure out how to distribute information prefacebook. you know like the olden days.
Have to laugh, I think Facebook had an update today.
maybe while they are down, the REAL NEWS CAN GO OUT.
I dont care about FB but this situation is very interesting if not encouraging. I hope it’s a sign of much bigger things to come.
Even if they can get in and to their desks, how are they going to log in to access the system to fix it?
It was neither. It was a take over by Bill Gates and his AI software. AI owns you!
More of Sussmann’s pals getting indicted
Lets hope its permanent.
Once people get out of the habit of living on it, they wont be as inclined to participate on it.
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