Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by html5web » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

Great time to take a break from Facebook and Instagram. Use Telegram instead of WhatsApp

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by janmo » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

Spare_account wrote: post #198

WillPostForFood wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seeing similar DNS errors for many non-Facebook sites.

Do you have some examples?

I am getting DNS fails for wikipedia

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by dcminter » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:25 PM UTC

Jyaif wrote: post #190

elboru wrote: post #169

Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?

With the Facebook properties down, the rest of the internet will have a significant increase in usage.

Plus I don't know about you, but I came to HN just now specifically to check if there was any insight into why it was down! The thundering herd just arrived :)

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by ourcat » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:25 PM UTC

tinyprojects wrote: post #146

Oculus is also down

Indeed. People seem to forget that when Facebook goes down, it's not just your feed of depressing posts, photos and messages that go away, but also the entire Oculus VR platform, since they demanded a FB account to use Quest headsets.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by jliptzin » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

drcongo wrote: post #66

Let's hope it's permanent.

Of all the big tech companies Facebook is the only one where it can completely disappear overnight and my life would be completely unaffected (or possibly improved by not having to explain to people I don't use facebook, please email or text me your invitations rather than use messenger). If Google, Amazon, Netflix, Apple disappeared the story would be completely different.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by rd_police » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

zoobab wrote: post #87

m0guz wrote: post #27

Ironic enough; status.fb.com also down.

LOL

very based response, sir

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by julianlam » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

hkai wrote: post #208

spaceywilly wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s hope it’s this. Everyone will just shrug and move onto the next hopefully less evil site

Which one?

lobste.rs? mastodon?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by hotz » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

The joy that people are getting from this is quite shitty. I hate social media but there are people earning a living working for these companies. Like others have pointed out, businesses and neighborhood watches rely on tech like this. At some point we've all had sites/apps go down, in a situation like that the last thing you want is people enjoying it. The lack of empathy in this thread is telling.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by elevenoh » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

hkai wrote: post #195

drcongo wrote: post #66

Let's hope it's permanent.

Why?

b/c most humans are on the wrong end of fb's covert, exploitative attention-manipulation

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by skywhopper » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

Hokusai wrote: post #137

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?

So far the pattern isn't the same. Slack published a DNSSEC record that got cached and then deleted it, which broke clients that tried to validate DNSSEC for slack.com. But in this case, the records are just completely gone. As if "facebook.com", "instagram.com", et al just didn't exist.