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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Signal is welcoming everyone: https://nitter.mailstation.de/signalapp/status/1445062426739...

Ironically, I cannot send messages on Signal right now. They can’t handle the extra load?

Signal replicates each message to NSA and FB, so when one is down, Signal’s backend fails with a timeout error.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#642
I keep trying to submit to HN but I keep getting an error.

What's wrong with the internet?

FaceBook is down.

My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages.

I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received.

TrackMania players have talked about having input lag.

ycombinator is really slow and reports an error after submitting. "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" (lost count of the times i've tried submitting this)

ycombinator turned out to be giving only errors.

Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections.

Do you have anything to add to this?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#643

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)…

My suspicion is that since a lot of internal comms runs through the FB domain and since everyone is still WFH, then its probably a massive issue just to get people talking to each other to solve the problem.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#644
I keep trying to submit to HN but I keep getting an error.

What's wrong with the internet?

FaceBook is down.

My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages.

I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received.

TrackMania players have talked about having input lag.

ycombinator is really slow and reports an error after submitting. "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" (lost count of the times i've tried submitting this)

ycombinator turned out to be giving only errors, but now seems to be working occasionally. I can not submit anything, though.

Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections.

Do you have anything to add to this?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#647

Funny enough, I went to https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ to check if Facebook is down, and isitdownrightnow is down itself... probably from the massive number requests coming to check if Facebook is down

I personally like https://isup.me (alias of downforeveryoneorjustme.com) because it's much shorter. isup.me/facebook gets me what I want.

Their methodology is flawed it seems.

It says Google is down but it's not. [1]

[1] https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

#648

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…

He just deleted all his updates. user: https://old.reddit.com/user/ramenporn some messages: * This is a global outage for all FB-related services/infra (source: I'm currently on the recovery/investigation team). * Will try to provide any important/interesting bits as I see them. There is a ton of stuff flying around right now and like 7 separate discussion channels and video calls. * Update 1440 UTC: \ As many of you…

Essentially, they locked themselves out with an uninspired command line at the exact moment the datacenter was being hijacked by ape-people.

Yup, corporate comms won't love these status updates.

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