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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 ...
...........while some people make a living using Facebook to gather in business, others, like me, are deliriously happy anytime Zuckerburg stubs his toe! I hope the little America hating punk goes broke!
No it is working for most.
Facebook is offline leaving billions of workers worldwide unable to do anything except their jobs.
A day without Facebook is like a day with Suunshine!
> Even if they can get in and to their desks, how are they
> going to log in to access the system to fix it?
Crash cart in the server room. That’s the back door.
It’s coming back now, but not 100% yet.
Good days are upon us!
“There are reports that Facebook employees can’t enter their buildings because their “smart” badges and doors were also disabled by this network failure.”
Oh! That takes the entire cake!
Just wanted to throw out a wild idea....
Remember right before the Covid-19 began the UN and WHO conducted a war game on how the world would deal with a worldwide pandemic ???
Didn’t the same organizations conduct a wargame on a major worldwide cyber attack which led to speculation on could it happen again....??
The War Room is talking about other major systems and companies are also having issues....
Not saying any of this is related but it’s a coincidence which I don’t believe in....
Just watch, if FB stays down the sun will rise tomorrow, the birds will sing and if you’re smart you’ll be happy and take joy in the new day.
Here is a bit more on how it happened ... pretty lame.
“Ramenporn also stated that it wasn’t an attack, but a mistaken configuration change made via a web interface. What really stinks — and why Facebook is still down hours later — is that since both BGP and DNS are down, the “connection to the outside world is down, remote access to those tools don’t exist anymore, so the emergency procedure is to gain physical access to the peering routers and do all the configuration locally.”
“The true cause is that there are no working Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook’s sites.”
Lol. Taken down by people in far away places with their s#itty, sloppy routes and protocols. It’s like the garbage avalanche in Idiocracy. Poisoned by the ‘dirty ways of sloppy, little people far away. All the entrances are blocked by trash.
And lame tho it is, Bloomberg is reporting Zuck lost $7B today in net worth. Can it be down for a few more days? I want to hear Zuckerburg ask somebody if they want fries with that order.
White hats!
Be nice if it was targeted...
The info will get out as long as FR is here.
The world smells better without FartBarf.
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