Let's hope it's permanent.
Unfortunately Whatsapp replaced texting for around 80 % of the world.
No problem, they still have phone numbers of those people so they can send them SMS with Signal invitation. :)
Facebook-owned sites were down
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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#482Some Oculus Quest owners can't use their device https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/q18xwy/faceboo...
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#483Reddit 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…
The Reddit post is down but not before it was archived: https://archive.is/QvdmH and https://archive.is/TNrFv
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#484For 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
It isn't just DNS. If you happen to have cached entries, the site is returning errors as well.
agreed, they fell off the internet according to routeviews
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#485Earlier quoted context omitted.
i talk to my parents in India everyday in india. Watsapp is the only game in town there.
I hope that you can install other messaging apps as well?
Not OP. They _can_ but good luck trying to convince parents of that. They're not tech savvy enough to install apps themselves. They have simple questions about why Whatsapp cannot be installed in a basic Nokia phone for instance. It's not easy to convince them to use Signal or Telegram or anything else.
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#486Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like how FB decided to send "ramenporn" as their spokesperson.
A particular facet I love of the internet era is journalists reporting serious events while having to use the completely absurd usernames... "A Facebook engineer in the response team, ramenporn..."
This felt like something straight out of a post modern novel during the whole WSB press rodeo, where some user names being used on TV were somewhere between absurd to repulsive.
Loved it.
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#487Earlier 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.
I am surprised you have Netflix on the list. It would be annoying for 2 minutes, then you can simply go for a walk or read a book.
Or watch movies and shows using one of the many alternatives to Netflix.
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#488For 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
It's always DNS
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#489Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of [...] Welcome to the brave new world of troubleshooting. This will seriously bite us one day.
This sounds like something that might have been done with security in mind. Although generally speaking, remote hands don't have to be elite hackors.
Have you ever tried to remotely troubleshoot THROUGH another person?!
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#490Seems like Telegram went down with a big whatsapp-is-down hug of death.