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 ...
Is Mr. Zuckerberg in trouble again?
Do I honestly care if Facebook is down? Nope
Pandora Papers.............................
“ Most people, indeed most network administrators, never need to deal with BGP.”
That’ll be news to my crew.
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I wonder if the US government took it off line because something big is coming out about Biden....make it difficult to get that information out.
I hope he’s sitting at a computer hitting the refresh button every minute
Hahaha!
So was this an attack or just a mistake?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I didn’t even notice, but I do find this to be pretty funny and can only hope they screwed themselves bad enough to not Recover.
And folks say there never is any good news reported...
I haven’t missed it.
Sounds like a bunch of hooey.
I guess having a backup door key is out of the question.
Has to be tough on all those Instagram babes not getting their hourly dose of attention.
How will I ever know what my friends had for breakfast?
The fact they didn’t flip over to the redundant network says a lot. Is Rumble up?
HaHa
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