Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by TremendousJudge » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:55 PM UTC

glanzwulf wrote: post #35

Oh no... Anyway...

WhatsApp is pretty important infrastructure for most of the world

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by marbex7 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:55 PM UTC

debacle wrote: post #26

ivanmontillam wrote: post #20

One thing that triggers my OCD is leaving the Facebook session open, though it's my own computer. Maybe it's DNS. It's always DNS.

Facebook went down (error page, then 503) before DNS went down.

Same for me.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by cryptodan » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

Hope it's permanent

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by zulln » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

sparrish wrote: post #19

Seems to be DNS related. None of the listed facebook nameservers are resolvable or reachable: a.ns.facebook.com b.ns.facebook.com c.ns.facebook.com d.ns.facebook.com

In the beginning it responded but gave server errors.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by aaomidi » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

rainboiboi wrote: post #40

Just wondering - would the engineer who made the mistake be fired?

If they are then Facebook is worse than I thought.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by aduitsis » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

rootinier wrote: post #13

nslookup www.facebook.com 8.8.8.8 Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 * server can't find www.facebook.com: SERVFAIL

  dig +trace messenger.com

shows that all is well with the root DNS servers and

  dig @a.ns.facebook.com messenger.com
  ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

and also

  ping a.ns.facebook.com
  3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

shows that something's wrong with facebook.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by baby » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

rainboiboi wrote: post #40

Just wondering - would the engineer who made the mistake be fired?

That’s not the culture at facebook

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

rainboiboi wrote: post #40

Just wondering - would the engineer who made the mistake be fired?

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by pc86 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

rainboiboi wrote: post #40

Just wondering - would the engineer who made the mistake be fired?

What makes you think it was a mistake? What makes you think an engineer did it?

Sometimes things just break and take time to fix.