Should say "Facebook owned. Sites are down."
Facebook-owned sites were down
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#872Its alive!
drill @1.1.1.1 www.facebook.com ;; ->>HEADER;; ANSWER SECTION: www.facebook.com. 3401 IN CNAME star-mini.c10r.facebook.com. star-mini.c10r.facebook.com. 3403 IN A 31.13.72.36
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#873pings to a.ns.facebook.com are no longer timing out
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#874Unsurprisingly, Oculus is down as well, as are most services for the VR headset. So that's 4 major properties right now.
Can you not use an Oculus headset if FB servers are down? That’s absurd.
Well, You cant access a city if the freeway has been bombed...
Remember the 'information super-highway'? Yeah it gets carpet bombed constantly....
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#875Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't fathom how they didn't plan for this. In any business of size, you have to change configuration remotely on a regular basis, and can easily lock yourself out on a regular basis. Every single system has a local user with a random password that we can hand out for just this kind of circumstance...
Most likely they did plan for this. Then, something happened that the failsafe couldn't handle. E.g. if something overwrites /etc/passwd, having a local user won't help. I'm not saying that specific thing happened here -- it's actually vanishingly unlikely -- but your plan can't cover every contingency.
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#876Earlier quoted context omitted.
Essentially, they locked themselves out with an uninspired command line at the exact moment the datacenter was being hijacked by ape-people. Yup, corporate comms won't love these status updates.
Sorry, are you referring to data center technicians as “ape people”?
Are you fucking kidding me?
We even had a site and operation for a long while called:
"NOC MONKEY .DOT ORG"
We called all of ourselves NOC MONKEYS. [[Remote Hands]]
Yeah, that was a term used widely.
I'm 46. I assume you are ---
Where were you in 1997 building out the very first XML implementations to replace EDI from AS400s to FTP EDI file retrievals via some of the first Linux FTP servers based in SV?
I was there? Remember LinuxCare?
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#877Earlier quoted context omitted.
Essentially, they locked themselves out with an uninspired command line at the exact moment the datacenter was being hijacked by ape-people. Yup, corporate comms won't love these status updates.
Sorry, are you referring to data center technicians as “ape people”?
I mean, when I last worked in a NOC, we used to call ourselves "NOC monkeys", so yeah. IF you're in the NOC, you're a NOC monkey, if you're on the floor, you're a floor monkey. And so on.
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#878https://www.status.fb.com/ is back online now
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#879Its alive! drill @1.1.1.1 www.facebook.com ;; ->>HEADER ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.facebook.com. 3401 IN CNAME star-mini.c10r.facebook.com. star-mini.c10r.facebook.com. 3403 IN A 31.13.72.36
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#880After changing the screen resolution all operating systems will prompt the user if the applied settings where correct, otherwise it will time out and reset to last known good setting. Maybe time for the core internet infrastructure to implement something similar? :)
You can’t really make a system that will unboil an egg.