makes me think, why dont porn sites ever go down ?
Phrasing!
Facebook-owned sites were down
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#842Does everyone just buy in that this is just a network change gone wrong? OR could they be mitigating a breach/hack? OR could it be some other theory?
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#843Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Wow this really works, thank you. What actually is the reason for it being much faster in a private window? Is there so much tracking going on in a normal window?
You can also just log out instead of opening a private window. Users that aren't logged in are served cached pages.
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#844After changing the screen resolution all operating systems will prompt the user if the applied settings where correct, otherwise it will time out and reset to last known good setting.
Maybe time for the core internet infrastructure to implement something similar? :)
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#845Maybe intentional? Zuck trying to give an example of what a world without FB would look like, kinda saying to detractors what would happen if they had it their way.
Maybe "intentional" in quotes. My money is on a major security breach and they've shut everything down until they can deal with it. Even if you go to Instagram by the IP address [1], you get a 400 error. So it looks like things are off line because they want them off line for now.
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#846Reddit 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…
Wondering how Facebook communicates now internally - most of their work streams likely depend on Facebooks systems which are all down. Can engineers and security teams even access prod systems anymore? Like, would "Bastion" hosts be reachable? Wonder if they use Signal and Slack now?
I haven't worked for a FAANG but it would be unthinkable that FB does not have backup measures in place for communications entirely outside of Facebook.
Hmm well I mean for key people, ops and so on. Not for every employee.
Only a few people need that type of access, and they should have it ready. They need to bring more people there should be an easy way to do it.
Maybe the internal FB Messenger app has a slide button to switch to the backup network for those in need.
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#847The timing of this is so rich in irony I can't help but wonder if there is an element of internal sabotage. How many FB employees hate FB right now? The latest expose of FB is both effective and truly awful. I can't imagine feeling good about a FB job. And it's gotten worse! Now they look like they can't even keep their websites up.
Perhaps we'll find out. As fun as internal sabotage would be, schadenfreude-wise, i think it much more likely this will turn out to be a time when Hanlon's Razor applies
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#848I find myself a little bit happy that it's down. I use Facebook quite often, but mostly because everyone else I know uses it. If everyone is forced to find an alternative, that'd be fine by me.
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#849There'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)…
I just got off a short pre-interview conversation with a manager at Instagram and he had to dial in with POTS. I got the impression that things are very broken internally.
What is POTS?
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#850Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Anyone remember the 90s? There was this thing called the Information Superhighway, a kind of decentralised network of networks that was designed to allow robust communications without a single point of failure. I wonder what happened to that...?
I am going to guess it’s one of those things the techies want to get round to, but in reality there is never any chance or will to do it.