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Re: Facebook was down

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Post by eridius »

bombtrack wrote: post #92

Obviously anyone can "take credit" for things like this, but if this[1] is true, then jesus. Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations. Releng 2014 - Keynote 1: Chuck Rossi, Release Engineering, Facebook Inc. | Talks at Google [2] [1] https://twitter.com/lizardmafia/status/559963134006292481 [2] http://youtu.be/Nffzkkdq7GM?t=4m39s

I gotta say I'm finding it hard to accept their word that they're responsible for Facebook. I haven't paid much attention but I'm under the impression that they primarily just deal in DDoS's and other crude attacks, and I have a hard time imagining that they could cause a large enough DDoS to affect the massive juggernaut that is Facebook. Especially since Facebook just came back up and is now perfectly responsive and showing no signs of being under strain.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by austinl »

bombtrack wrote: post #92

Obviously anyone can "take credit" for things like this, but if this[1] is true, then jesus. Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations. Releng 2014 - Keynote 1: Chuck Rossi, Release Engineering, Facebook Inc. | Talks at Google [2] [1] https://twitter.com/lizardmafia/status/559963134006292481 [2] http://youtu.be/Nffzkkdq7GM?t=4m39s

I doubt it was them, though think it's worth watching since Facebook will definitely have a post-mortem. If it's not DDoS/security related, then it would be kind of embarrassing for Lizard Squad (which is why I'm surprised to see them claim it). For example, Facebook's last major downtime was caused by a main database failure – nothing to do with any vulnerabilities:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-det...

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I'm guessing the multiple services going down at once has to do with Akamai. It seems like there's some speculation about the storm on the east coast and their Boston datacenter.

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