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Re: Facebook Down?

#145

How on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?

The global outage drinking game: bad DNS config push - 1 shot routing loop - 2 shots third party advertising your routes - 3 shots power outage at data centre it turns out everything depends on despite decades and millions in engineering to avoid precisely that - 4 shots Wolves ate through fiber - 5 shots And it was a full moon - 6 shots Single service failure, but service has not been restarted in 5 years, and no lo…

You forgot:

Hunter shot your fiber relay with a hunting rifle - 6 shots

Re: Facebook Down?

#146

How on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?

The global outage drinking game: bad DNS config push - 1 shot routing loop - 2 shots third party advertising your routes - 3 shots power outage at data centre it turns out everything depends on despite decades and millions in engineering to avoid precisely that - 4 shots Wolves ate through fiber - 5 shots And it was a full moon - 6 shots Single service failure, but service has not been restarted in 5 years, and no lo…

Apple decided to shut down Facebook.

Re: Facebook Down?

#147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for posterity: Error html, body { color: #333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', 'Verdana', 'Arial', sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: center;} #header { height: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: center;} #icon { width: 30px;} .core { margin: auto; padding: 1em 0; text-align: left; width: 904px;} h1 { font-size: 18px;} p { font-size: 13px;} .footer { border-top: 1px solid #…

And here are the headers: # curl -i https://www.facebook.com/ HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; preload Set-Cookie: ... Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Vary: Accept-Encoding Pragma: no-cache x-fb-rlafr: 0 Content-Type: text/html; cha…

>>Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT

The year 2000 doesn’t sound right.

Re: Facebook Down?

#148

Weird that people almost celebrating in this thread? Facebook is a tool like any other and is only 'bad' if you allow that to happen.

That's like saying that any Turing complete language is equivalent. Some languages encourage you to do things well, others do not. It was totally possible to write code with a lot of "GOTO" statements in it that was well structured, but the actual real-world results with it were bad. It may be possible to use FB in a constructive way, but that doesn't mean we are better off having it.

Re: Facebook Down?

#150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And here are the headers: # curl -i https://www.facebook.com/ HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; preload Set-Cookie: ... Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Vary: Accept-Encoding Pragma: no-cache x-fb-rlafr: 0 Content-Type: text/html; cha…

>> Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT The year 2000 doesn’t sound right.

This is common, it essentially means “don’t cache this”.
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