Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

cvhashim wrote: post #241

elboru wrote: post #169

Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?

Some internet backbone provider is probably down itself.

Or some country has started a war.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:37 PM UTC

drcongo wrote: post #66

Let's hope it's permanent.

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by treesknees » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:38 PM UTC

klik99 wrote: post #170

Is this related to the outages from lets encrypt root cert expiring? Probably not since this looks like a DNS issue, but still it's a crazy coincidence that two major internet breaking events happen in the same week

There is zero reason to believe it's related at all. It's perfectly reasonable to have multiple large and unrelated failures in the same week.

I also wouldn't classify the loss of 1 company, and the expiration of some TLS certificates, as the interconnected network of networks being broken. The Internet has continued to function even if some larger players were unreachable or having issues.

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Post by unusximmortalis » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:38 PM UTC

for me even this site loads very very slowly. pinging google name server is fast as usual. it could be a more wide problem not just FB related.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by sasaf5 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

hotz wrote: post #218

The joy that people are getting from this is quite shitty. I hate social media but there are people earning a living working for these companies. Like others have pointed out, businesses and neighborhood watches rely on tech like this. At some point we've all had sites/apps go down, in a situation like that the last thing you want is people enjoying it. The lack of empathy in this thread is telling.

It pales in comparison to the lack of empathy facebook has shown to its user herd.

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Post by zarzavat » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

rvnx wrote: post #182

simlevesque wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they tried everything else before that. At first it was working but they couldn't serve responses: https://i.imgur.com/UaCtOiX.png Notice the "2020"

The servers struggle to reply a basic 5xx answer. Two possibilities: - the DNS services internally have issues (most likely, as this could explain the snowball effect) - it could be also a core storage issue and all their VMs are relying on it and so they don't want to block third-party websites and think it will last for a long time, so they prefer to answer nothing for now in the DNS (so it will fail instantly to t…

I was on a video call during the incident. The service was working but with super-low bandwidth for 30 minutes, then I got disconnected and every FB property went down suddenly. Seems more suggestive of someone pulling the plug than a DNS issue, although it could also be both.