Glad to report that facebook's dns in china is not affected.
You can dig facebook.com and the depth of the internet happily reply with a random ip address as usual.
Facebook-owned sites were down
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#602It's like a nuclear bomb exploded on the internet.
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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..."
>journalists reporting serious events
A facet I don't love is journalism devolving to reposting unverified, anonymous reddit posts.
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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…
A few random guesses (I am not in any way affiliated with FB); just my 2c:
Sharing status of an active event may complicate recovery, especially if they suspect adversarial actions: such public real-time reports can explain to the red team what the blue team is doing and, especially important, what the blue team is unable to do at the moment.
Potentially exposing the dirty laundry. While a postmortem should be done within the company (and as much as possible is published publicly) after the event, such early blurbs may expose many non-public things, usually unrelated to the issue.
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#605Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?
General tip: If HN is being laggy and you're determined you want to waste some time here, open it in a private window. HN works extremely quickly if it doesn't know who you are.
That explains why it works fine in my computer, where I haven’t logged in. Thanks for the tip.
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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…
I doubt WFH will be impacted by this - not an insider but seems unlikely that the relevant people were on-site at data centers before COVID
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#607Rejoice! The revolution has started!
Yes, I know humor is not welcome in HN
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#608Is facebook being down causing hacker news to get the hug of death??
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#609Sir, I don't care who you are, you must open a ticket.
Rajeesh FFS, get off HN! We have the world on fire!
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So, does anyone know where to one can buy an LTE gateway with a serial port interface? Asking for a friend.
These are readily available, OpenGear and others have offered them forever. I can't believe fb doesn't have out of band access to their core networking in some fashion. OOB access to core networking is like insurance, rarely appreciated until the house is on fire.
It's quite possible that they have those, but that the credentials are stored in a tool hosted in that datacenter or that the DNS entries are managed by the DNS servers that are down right now.