Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by dkarp » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

grayhatter wrote: post #140

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

If they chose 8:30, then it must have been really risky! ;)

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by dekerta » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

finolex1 wrote: post #57

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

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

There are plenty of ways to communicate with friends and family. If Facebook is down long enough, many people will just move to something else. (And I hope they do)

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by horsellama » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

skizm wrote: post #131

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.

'Unusual traffic patterns detected' now

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by pixelgeek » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #122

subsaharancoder wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people, many of them home based businesses, also rely on FB Marketplace as a primary source of income.

That's terrifying.

They have to go where their market is sadly

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by qeternity » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #139

ctur wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Internal services using public dns records?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by gorgoiler » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

ricardo81 wrote: post #117

Doesn't seem too clever that Facebook's NS servers are a.ns.facebook.com, b.ns.facebook.com etc. IIRC that kind of setup requires some glue records.

If you mean because the name servers are in the same zone, this is very common. When an NS is returned for a zone, you also get an “additional” A and AAAA to resolve the NS name. It’s called glue.

    dig NS example.com
    ; ANSWER
    example.com. NS ns1.example.com.
    ; ADDITIONAL
    ns1.example.com. A 1.2.3.4

Edit: I didn’t see your glue comment when I wrote this.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by dmix » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

nerbert wrote: post #72

decrypt wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What leak are you referring to?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/technology/whistle-blower...

The actual leak was published on WSJ “The Facebook Files”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by can16358p » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

Just because a company has questionable or even straight evil business practices doesn't mean that literally millions of companies/people don't rely on them to do business and communicate.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by ekianjo » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

finolex1 wrote: post #57

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

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

Making poor choices seems to be the curse of humankind.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

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