Facebook and all owned assets like WhatsApp down ...
- pushedbutton
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Unfortunately facebook is back online.
@pushedbutton on twitter, add me, send me a message, but don't try to sell me stuff cos I'm skint.
Using Reason since version 3 and still never finished a song.
Using Reason since version 3 and still never finished a song.
- integerpoet
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Right after FB came back online, I saw a tweet that rang true:
Literally everybody outside FB wishes it would stay down and accepts that it should.
And yet.
- Shocker: I have a SoundCloud!
makes one wonder how many people who use the word “literally” often actually know what it means.
do you believe most people who use it that way know the difference? I don’t.
- integerpoet
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It does get overused in social media posts, but I think in this case it was meant to clarify that "everybody" wasn't hyperbole.
- Shocker: I have a SoundCloud!
Here's the post-mortem: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/n ... e-details/
tl;dr: an admin f*cked up and the security net didn't catch this, thus the whole backbone network went down and took the DNS with it. Due to internal services depending on functioning DNS and additional physical access mitigations being in place, the backbone could not be brought back up easily.
tl;dr: an admin f*cked up and the security net didn't catch this, thus the whole backbone network went down and took the DNS with it. Due to internal services depending on functioning DNS and additional physical access mitigations being in place, the backbone could not be brought back up easily.
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