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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by samhwr »

Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

It’s massively viral news about the exact stuff they specialise in. I’m not too surprised that they’d be putting out content. After all, Facebook is hardly in a position to do so ;)

Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by Ansil849 »

samhwr wrote: post #81
Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

It’s massively viral news about the exact stuff they specialise in. I’m not too surprised that they’d be putting out content. After all, Facebook is hardly in a position to do so ;)

It's not surprising, no, but it is irritating because it's just crass marketing.

Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by Blackthorn »

Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

No surprises here. They do it all the time for websites they cdn. Cloudflare might as well be a marketing company for how much they puff about themselves.

Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by wslack »

Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

They seem to be treating it as a marketing opportunity, as well as explaining these topics for journalists. If their post didn't add to the public conversation, it wouldn't have been so viral.

Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by Ansil849 »

rjvir wrote: post #79
Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

It's merely an informative blog post on a topic many people are interested in. I see nothing wrong with Cloudflare just explaining what happened, even though they had nothing to do with it.

> I see nothing wrong with Cloudflare just explaining what happened, even though they had nothing to do with it.

You kinda inadvertently highlighted the issue: because they had nothing to do with it, they do not know what actually happened. They can pontificate about likely causes, just like others in the industry can, but they have no idea what actually caused the issue.

Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by fareesh »

Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

As someone who is always interested in learning new things, their blog post is informative and helpful. Not everything is about optics, their intentions are of no interest to me, because I got some value out of the content.

Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by [deleted] »

Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

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Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by dirkg »

Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

how are they 'interjecting' themselves? They run a massively popular dns service as well as many other sites, and they are simply reporting on what happened and why people who use their dns etc might have had outages. In addition to being a very detailed and well written article on the whole incident. Not really sure what you are driving at.

Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by Ansil849 »

dirkg wrote: post #88
Ansil849 wrote: post #72

Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting themselves in the middle of it. Cloudflare staff are not Facebook staff, they do not know how things actually went down to trigger the events that transpired. They are essentially doing gl…

how are they 'interjecting' themselves? They run a massively popular dns service as well as many other sites, and they are simply reporting on what happened and why people who use their dns etc might have had outages. In addition to being a very detailed and well written article on the whole incident. Not really sure what you are driving at.

> Not really sure what you are driving at.

At the fact that they are presenting themselves as authorities on the incident, when they have no internal knowledge of what triggered the events, because they are not Facebook engineers. They provide an explanation of BGP that you can glean by reading virtually any other introductory explainer, and turn it into a chance to promote their own service.

Re: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

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Post by dirkg »

Wolfspirit wrote: post #8
throwdecro wrote: post #6

This is a great write-up, but one thing I don't understand is why the effect of withdrawing the BGP prefixes was instantaneous (if I understand that correctly), but it's taking hours (so far) to re-announce the prefixes. Why would it take so long to flip the switch back the other way?

I'm not sure if that is true (and I hope it is not cause that would be fatal) but I read somewhere that with facebook being down also means all internal infrastructure of facebook isn't available at the moment (chats, communication) including remote control tools for the BGP Routers. Therefor they require people to get physical access to the router while many people are working from home cause of the pandemic.

also people's badges stopped working and they were unable to get physical access to sites.
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