Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

drcongo wrote: post #66

Let's hope it's permanent.

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by derwiki » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

foobaw wrote: post #250

This is taking a longer time than expected for a company like Facebook - must be serious where a rollback isn't possible or trivial.

I wonder if everyone refreshing the sites/apps trying to get it to load is contributing to the problem

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by wyager » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #242

Unsurprisingly, Oculus is down as well, as are most services for the VR headset. So that's 4 major properties right now.

Can you not use an Oculus headset if FB servers are down? That’s absurd.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by zekica » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

jamespwilliams wrote: post #192

Is this caused by missing glue records? I can’t resolve any of FB’s nameservers. Anyone know how that could happen?

The glue records are fine from my end: dig -t NS facebook.com @a.gtld-servers.net

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by wly_cdgr » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

...Including that one

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by caturopath » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

What would a full day of WhatsApp outage mean for the world?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by raymondh » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

elboru wrote: post #169

Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?

It is slow for me too.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by apexalpha » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

jliptzin wrote: post #215

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.

Weird, because over here WhatsApp is ingrained into the social fabric of your life. Couldn't imagine ever going back to texting/iMessage.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by EvanAnderson » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:42 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

Seems like the perfect time to launch isisitdowndownrightnow.com.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by john37386 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:42 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

Even the Name servers are not returning any values. That's bad.

dig @8.8.8.8 +short facebook.com NS

These are usually anycasted, meaning that 1 ip return in NS are in fact several servers spread in several regions. They are distributed to closer match through agreements with ISP with the BGP protocol. Very interesting, because it seems that it took 1 DNS entry misconfiguration to withdraw M$ worth of devices from the internet.