Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by aero-glide2 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:04 PM UTC

Does this mean Oculus is unusable now?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by infinite_beam » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:05 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.

disappearance of FB might not impact you, but India runs on WhatsApp.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

bhartzer wrote: post #335

Facebook being down makes me think of all of those small businesses who never built websites. They rely on traffic and publicity from their Facebook pages only. It's so important to diversify, such as building a website.

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by shmiga » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

A lot of addict's will now feel how is it to live in the reality not scrolling dump images. I hope this will be tradition at least once a month.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by teddyh » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

Interestingly, their .onion site¹ is also down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_onion_address

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by jfrunyon » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

pmlnr wrote: post #489

formerly_proven wrote: post #420

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?!

Yes. Depending on the person, it can either go extremely well or extremely poorly. Getting someone else to point a camera at the screen helps.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by EGreg » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

Anyone able to Connect w WhatsApp at the moment?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by rightbyte » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #139

ctur wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't just DNS. If you happen to have cached entries, the site is returning errors as well.

Presumably the DNS being down also wreaks havoc in their internal infrastructure as services can no longer resolve each other's names.

I wonder if Facebook has circular 'boot' dependencies on their microservices or something? I.e. they can't restart stuff now when everything is down.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by riffic » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

finolex1 wrote: post #57

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

I get that this in jest, but a lot of people rely on Whatsapp and FB Messenger for messaging.

they shouldn't.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by Animats » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 6:08 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 Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS server says can't find, SERVFAIL.