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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by cheese_van »

pmlnr wrote: post #314
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…

> 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 is why so many teams fight back against the audit findings:

"The information systems office did not enforce logical access to the system in accordance with role-based access policies."

Invariably, you want your best people to have full access to all systems.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by _joel »

treesknees wrote: post #523
Ueland wrote: post #493

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And there his account went poof, thanks for archiving.

They were quoted on multiple news sites including Ars Technica. I would imagine they were not authorized to post that information. I hope they don't lose their job. Shareholders and other business leaders I'm sure are much happier reporting this as a series of unfortunate technical failures (which I'm sure is part of it) rather than a company-wide organizational failure. The fact they can't physically badge in the pe…

There could be something in the contract that requires all community interaction to go via PR official channels.

It's innocous enough, but leaking info, no matter what, will be a problem if it's stated in their contract.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by minusSeven »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #522
meragrin_ wrote: post #497

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The account has been deleted as well.

What are they afraid of? While they are sharing information that's internal/proprietary to the company, it isn't anything particularly sensitive and having some transparency into the problem is good for everyone. Who'd want to work for a company that might take disciplinary action because an SRE posted a reddit comment to basically say "BGP's down lol" - If I was in charge I'd give them a modest EOY bonus for being h…

Do we even know if someone had the account deleted? I think facebook might have their hands full right now solving the issue rather than looking at social media posts that discusses the issue.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by zemo »

m-chrzan wrote: post #91
finolex1 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

A lot of people, out of habit, rely on high fructose corn syrup for calories.

I know you think this is some sort of neutral comment about personal choice, but it isn't. Millions of underserved people all over the world live in Food Deserts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert), places with little to no access to affordable nutritious food. Those people wind up consuming a large portion of their calories from high fructose corn syrup, not because they have chosen to do so, but because they have no choice, and that is their only option. Whether you want to accept it or not, your comment is classist and makes HN a more hostile place.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by K5EiS »

tinza123 wrote: post #428
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.

Well assuming they do that, likely they will host websites on AWS or Azure. Then AWS is down, what are you gonna do?

There's always Oracle Cloud ;)
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