Is this caused by missing glue records? I can’t resolve any of FB’s nameservers. Anyone know how that could happen?
the glues are still there-- it's not a DNS issue but a network one. Their ASN has mostly been withdrawn from everywhere.
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why?
Because combined with the abysmal state of education in most places, and a general lack of government action, Facebook is an actual threat to our civilization.
People unfortunately love the upsides of misinformation, or perhaps it's the format that makes it easy to build community around shared (misinformed) values, to rally in battles that rage for hours or days for a cause you deeply believe in and can follow by digesting 30-second soundbites on social midea and 30-minute videos on YouTube.
People will do this wherever they can talk in a group online, not just Facebook properties. It's... pretty bad actually, I think the only tool that exists right now is censorship, because the bullshit gets created, spread, and wholeheartedly received way faster than debunking will.
And censorship is a power that can't be safely entrusted to nobody.
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#273Let'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.
All of the big tech companies you mentioned could completely disappear overnight and my life would be completely unaffected or possibly improved.
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#274Somebody published vogon poetry and pictures and the internet routed around the damage...
I have not laughed so loud since before the virus that shall have no vogon name.
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#275This solves the disinformation problem
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#276Facebook is proving that it's systemically important by taking the entire site down..... Zuckerberg is taking his ball and going home unless you stop writing mean things about him /s
Used to have a manager that we swore did exactly that. Every time he was away on holiday, mysterious site problems to prove his worth!
I had the exact opposite and it was hilarious. Every time my manager (a great guy and really good at what he did) was away for a week the sprint would go very smoothly.
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#277For 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
Thank god we have DoH.
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#278Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?
Internet's got a case of the Mondays for sure
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#279For 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…
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