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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by bronlund »

Animats wrote: post #628

There's still no connectivity to Facebook's DNS servers: > traceroute a.ns.facebook.com traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.484 ms 0.474 ms 0.422 ms 2 107-131-124-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (107.131.124.1) 1.592 ms 1.657 ms 1.607 ms 3 71.148.149.196 (71.148.149.196) 1.676 ms 1.697 ms 1.705 ms 4 12.242.105.110 (12.242.105.110)…

Yeah that's some pretty hardcore A/B testing right there.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by jmfldn »

Yet another reason to not over-rely on a few big tech companies for the majority of the planet's communication. Forget concerns about competition, monopolies and so on for now (as important as they are), what we want are many social networks, video conferencing apps, messenger apps. Every country should strive to build their own Google or FB, or certainly many more should. State-backed if needed. It's a question of resilience and security as much as anything.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by ppqqrr »

qnsi wrote: post #512
shmiga wrote: post #504

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.

I am an addict. I refresh this thread waiting for information: fb is back online. I need help but this is too hard for me. I uninstall social media once a week but install two days later. I should probably go to therapy with this, but I am not sure I wouldnt be laughed at

https://heyfocus.com/ worked for me, maybe it’ll help (if you’re on Mac). Addiction to social media is a real problem; thousands of engineers are paid to make sure that these products ensnare your attention. It wouldn’t be odd if it takes a few bucks of your own to rescue yourself. Don’t hesitate to seek help, no one will laugh at you.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by wooger »

chadlavi wrote: post #563

I recognize that for WhatsApp users around the globe this is probably more than an inconvenience, but the rest of humanity is getting something of a reprieve here.

Also amusingly I think quite a lot of employers use WhatsApp for part of their disaster communications plan.

If this happened then some wider issue (github down) there’d be chaos.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by ikiris »

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?!

Yeah. Do what you have to.

Sometimes the DR plan isn't so much I have to have a working key, I just have to know who gets their first with a working key, and break glass might be literal.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by john37386 »

Animats wrote: post #628

There's still no connectivity to Facebook's DNS servers: > traceroute a.ns.facebook.com traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.484 ms 0.474 ms 0.422 ms 2 107-131-124-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (107.131.124.1) 1.592 ms 1.657 ms 1.607 ms 3 71.148.149.196 (71.148.149.196) 1.676 ms 1.697 ms 1.705 ms 4 12.242.105.110 (12.242.105.110)…

Yeah the patch to fix BGP to reach the DNS is sent by email to @facebook.com. Ooops no DNS to resolve the MX records to send the patch to fix the BGP routers.
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