Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by derwiki » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:49 PM UTC

i_like_apis wrote: post #159

bubblehack3r wrote: post #94

Their stock is down 5% too. Everything is down for them today ;)

Great dip to buy. (I'm not a facebook zealot, but you know it will recover today or tomorrow once the DNS is sorted in an hour or two) Of course there is the whistle-blower issue too...

I don’t think stock dip is related to downtime; anecdotally, I’ve never seen a company’s stock affected by downtime (unless that downtime destroys the business)

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by mrkickling » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:50 PM UTC

When I do dig instagram.com I get an A response for this IP: 31.13.65.174 or similar addresses, which leads to an empty page.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by mdoms » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:51 PM UTC

heywherelogingo wrote: post #115

madeofpalk wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't message my friends on whatsapp :(

Seize the moment - switch to signal.

Based on their track record I wouldn't be surprised if Signal just happened to be having an extended outage too.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by dmd » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:51 PM UTC

apexalpha wrote: post #268

jliptzin wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

WhatsApp, like the metric system, is a “literally everywhere but the US” thing. I’ve never once seen it used in the US.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by o10449366 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

amir-h wrote: post #286

Hacker News also got so much slower, is it the load from people hoarding here after not being able to reach FB?

Either many HN users are in glee over FB's potential demise

...or many HN users are also avid FB users (and now have to resort to backup sources of entertainment)

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by shkkmo » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

I keep getting non-dns errors from Hackner News as well. There appears to be some sort of broader incident happening?

It's not just lag, I keep getting the "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" page.

Edit: HN related thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749476

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by snickersnee11 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

kossTKR wrote: post #291

Reddit r/Sysadmin user that claims to be on the "Recovery Team" for this ongoing issue: > As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that's that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC). There are people now…

Just imagine the amount of stress on this people, hope the money really worth it.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by robjan » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:53 PM UTC

WillPostForFood wrote: post #166

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

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

My ISP's DNS server went down a few minutes after the Facebook outage, presumably because all the residential customers' devices keep querying.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:53 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:55 PM UTC

apexalpha wrote: post #268

jliptzin wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But your friend groups would probably be able to migrate to Signal/Discord/Hangouts/etc quite quickly if WhatsApp were to disappear, no? WhatsApp has the network effect on its side by way of existing, but that could change quickly if given a push.