Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#131

Post by skizm » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

yawnxyz wrote: post #113

Funny enough, I went to https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ to check if Facebook is down, and isitdownrightnow is down itself... probably from the massive number requests coming to check if Facebook is down

https://downdetector.com/ seems to be working for me at least.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#132

Post by jose-cl » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

drcongo wrote: post #66

Let's hope it's permanent.

here's your upvote master

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#133

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

m-chrzan wrote: post #91

finolex1 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that this in jest, but a lot of people rely on Whatsapp and FB Messenger for messaging.

A lot of people, out of habit, rely on high fructose corn syrup for calories.

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#134

Post by jbkkd » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

yawnxyz wrote: post #113

Funny enough, I went to https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ to check if Facebook is down, and isitdownrightnow is down itself... probably from the massive number requests coming to check if Facebook is down

Noticed the same. I started to suspect my mobile plan ran out

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#135

Post by stemc43 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

blowski wrote: post #109

koprulusector wrote: post #107

Reddit wasn’t working a few min ago. Broader issue?

Reddit goes down every 10 mins anyway.

this person uses reddit

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#136

Post by dkarp » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

Someone save a risky release for 9am on a Monday morning? Decided Friday afternoon was too risky?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#137

Post by Hokusai » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

rocho wrote: post #36

For Facebook and WhatsApp it looks like a DNS issue, name resolution fails with SERVFAIL: $ dig facebook.com ; > DiG 9.16.21 > facebook.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER

Is this related in any way to what happened to Slack recently in their DNS?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#138

Post by m_coder » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

I unblocked Facebook right now from my hosts file so I could message someone and couldn't figure out why Facebook failed to load. I tested HN and viola I see that the entire world has sent Facebook requests to 0.0.0.0 lol

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#139

Post by Nextgrid » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

ctur wrote: post #54

rocho wrote: post #36

For Facebook and WhatsApp it looks like a DNS issue, name resolution fails with SERVFAIL: $ dig facebook.com ; > DiG 9.16.21 > facebook.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER

It isn't just DNS. If you happen to have cached entries, the site is returning errors as well.

Presumably the DNS being down also wreaks havoc in their internal infrastructure as services can no longer resolve each other's names.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#140

Post by grayhatter » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

dkarp wrote: post #136

Someone save a risky release for 9am on a Monday morning? Decided Friday afternoon was too risky?

0830 actually :/

But to be fair... seems like it was a good call to not do it Friday night :D