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Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by jonstokes »

linsomniac wrote: post #53

Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…

My first reaction to "could this be related to the storm," was "oh no, now this QAnon stuff has spread to HN."

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by kornish »

rconti wrote: post #230
linsomniac wrote: post #53

Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…

"The storm"? It's sunny in the Bay Area for the first time in I don't know how long. I imagine it's nice in other parts of the world as well, other than where this localized "storm" is.

Denver is getting slammed right now — power surges everywhere.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by ce4 »

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #200

This is bigger than Facebook. https://imgur.com/a/gePwi0i https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...

The heavy traffic is due to sports events - champions league last-16 matchday live streaming: Bayern Munich vs. Liverpool, FC Barcelona vs Olympique Lyon. The heatmap matches the clubs' home countries UK, Germany, France & Spain quite well.

Dont conflate that with fb/insta problems.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by copperx »

betolink wrote: post #86
godzillabrennus wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Private post Morten: The NSA middleware we are required to run (that took time to deploy to each of our social partners) is breaking something so let’s revert. Public post Mortem: Entirely believable technical cause.

I don't think it's the NSA this time, for once they don't have to do deep package analysis or install any MITM device since they get the whole info in bulk, maybe it's just a 400-pound hacker.

I've never understood the 400 pound hacker thing. Does it refer to body weight or technical prowess?

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by buboard »

marnett wrote: post #210
buboard wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fb platform is free

Facebook is a paid advertising platform. There are plenty of people not getting what they paid for as a result of an outage.

ok but you are all talking about the users. facebook platform is free to use for developers

as for the advertisers, i doubt they 'll be charged for impressions that didn't happen

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by drbenway »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #10
jedberg wrote: post #9

So yesterday Google had a major (and out of character) outage across its apps, and today Facebook has a major (and also out of character) outage across its apps. I can't wait to see the RCA for both of these and if they're related.

Private post Morten: The NSA middleware we are required to run (that took time to deploy to each of our social partners) is breaking something so let’s revert. Public post Mortem: Entirely believable technical cause.

interesting that facebooks cavalrylogger is still being sucessfully injected despite their being nothing but a blank page also interesting that cavalrylogger has a function that lets you bind key-presses to callbacks even more interesting is that cavalrylogger seems to come prepackaged with any facebook like button! cheers for the keylogger facebook

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4188605/what-is-cavalryl...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by why-el »

ce4 wrote: post #233
CodeWriter23 wrote: post #200

This is bigger than Facebook. https://imgur.com/a/gePwi0i https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...

The heavy traffic is due to sports events - champions league last-16 matchday live streaming: Bayern Munich vs. Liverpool, FC Barcelona vs Olympique Lyon. The heatmap matches the clubs' home countries UK, Germany, France & Spain quite well. Dont conflate that with fb/insta problems.

Indeed. The games are streamed like crazy! Lots of streams are in HD.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by happythought »

madrox wrote: post #205
snazz wrote: post #174

I’ve seen many systems go down over the last few days worldwide. Aside from the possibility of a mega-DDoS attack (which Facebook denies), all of these organizations have fairly diverse tech stacks to my knowledge. Google’s issue (supposedly) had to do with their Blobstore API, we don’t know what happened with Facebook, and many other, smaller services have had issues as well, including three intranet services at my…

> This leaves me wondering what software all these places have in common. Cisco or Arista

FANGs all use white box hardware with “merchant silicon” meaning they buy the chipsets directly from Broadcom, Mellanox, etc. and build their own devices. However, they do all have Broadcom and Mellanox in common and Cisco, juniper, and arista do too.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by miloignis »

My fiance's uncle sent something today that because of a school shooting in Brazil, they were blocking all images and video shared to social networks like "WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and other social networks". I haven't been able to verify this myself or from any other sources, but I wonder if either people are misinterpreting the FB outage or if Brazil is blocking content it's having weird ripple effects.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by iamgopal »

jyriand wrote: post #193
linsomniac wrote: post #53

Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…

So, a storm in Denver stops me from using Messengner in Estonia? I wonder where the butterfly flapped its wings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
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