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Post by tiluha »

MrYellowP wrote: post #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…

Some of those can probably be explained by facebooks traffic being redistributed to other services, overloading them

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Post by rStar »

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…

shoestring budget on a billion dollar product. you get what you deserve.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by gocartStatue »

rStar wrote: post #652
kiernanmcgowan wrote: post #643

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

time to start working at your mfing desk again, johnson

They supposedly can't enter facebook office right now. Their cards don't work.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by john37386 »

yoelo wrote: post #653
john37386 wrote: post #637

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Seriously? Is that how it works?

I don't know. I doubt. It's just funny to think that you need email to fix BGP, but DNS is down because of BGP. You need DNS to send email which needs BGP. It's a kind of chicken and egg problem but at a massive scale this time.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by still_grokking »

kiernanmcgowan wrote: post #643
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)…

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.

You mean the same problem as when GMail goes down and Googlers can't reach each other?

I guess good decentralized public communication services could solve those issues for everybody.

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