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> One of the jobs performed by our smaller facilities is to respond to DNS queries. DNS is the address book of the internet, enabling the simple web names we type into browsers to be translated into specific server IP addresses. What is the target audience of this post? It is too technical for non-technical people, but also it is dumbed down to try to include people that does not know how the internet works. I feel l…
> One of the jobs performed by our smaller facilities is to respond to DNS queries. DNS is the address book of the internet, enabling the simple web names we type into browsers to be translated into specific server IP addresses. What is the target audience of this post? It is too technical for non-technical people, but also it is dumbed down to try to include people that does not know how the internet works. I feel l…
> During one of these routine maintenance jobs, a command was issued with the intention to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network, effectively disconnecting Facebook data centers globally Imagine being this person. Tomorrow on /r/tifu.
> One of the jobs performed by our smaller facilities is to respond to DNS queries. DNS is the address book of the internet, enabling the simple web names we type into browsers to be translated into specific server IP addresses. What is the target audience of this post? It is too technical for non-technical people, but also it is dumbed down to try to include people that does not know how the internet works. I feel l…
It's like the birds and the bees.
Google had a comparable outage several years ago. https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19... This event left a lot of scar tissue across all of Technical Infrastructure, and the next few months were not a fun time (e.g. a mandatory training where leadership read out emails from customers telling us how we let them down and lost their trust). I'd be curious to see what systemic changes happen at F…
> During one of these routine maintenance jobs, a command was issued with the intention to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network, effectively disconnecting Facebook data centers globally Imagine being this person. Tomorrow on /r/tifu.
After reading this, I can't help but feel this was a calculated move.
It gives FB a chance to hijack media attention from the whistleblower. It gives them a chance to show the average peson, 'hey, we make mistakes and we have a review process to improve our systems'.
The timing is too perfect if you ask me.