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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by therein »

Twisol wrote: post #968
mdtancsa wrote: post #749

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Its partially there. C and D are still not in the global tables according to routeviews ie. 185.89.219.12 is still not being advertised to anyone. My peers to them in Toronto have routes from them, but not sure how far they are supposed to go inside their network. (past hop 2 is them) % traceroute -q1 -I a.ns.facebook.com traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 64 hops max, 48 byte packets 1 torix-core1-10G…

Oh my gosh, their IPv6 address contains "face:b00c"... > 2a03:2880:f0fc:c:face:b00c:0:35

Besides being fun and quirky, it is actually useful for their sysadmins as well as sysadmins at other orgs.

Well at least it will in 2036, when IPv6 goes mainstream.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by computator »

mise_en_place wrote: post #962
Animats wrote: post #929

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Notes as Facebook comes back up: "registrarsafe.com" is back up. It is, indeed, Facebook's very own registrar for Facebook's own domains. "RegistrarSEC, LLC and RegistrarSafe, LLC are ICANN-accredited registrars formed in Delaware and are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc. We are not accepting retail domain name registrations." Their address is Facebook HQ in Menlo Park. That's what you have to do to really…

Out of curiosity, I looked up how much it costs to become an registrar. Based on the ICANN site, it is $4,000 USD per yr, plus variable fees and transactions fees ($0.18/yr). Does anyone have experience or insight into running a domain registrar? Curious what it would entail (aside from typical SRE type stuff).

> transactions fees ($0.18/yr)

Wow, I had no idea it was so cheap[1] once you're a registrar. The implication is that anyone who wants to be a domain squatting tycoon should become a registrar. For an annual cost of a few thousand dollars plus $0.18 per domain name registered, you can sit on top of hundreds of thousands of domain names. Locking up one million domain names would cost you only $180,000 a year. Anytime someone searched for an unregistered domain name on your site, you could immediately register it to yourself for $0.18, take it off the market, and offer to sell it to the buyer at a much inflated price. Does ICANN have rules against this? Surely this is being done?

[1] "Transaction-based fees - these fees are assessed on each annual increment of an add, renew or a transfer transaction that has survived a related add or auto-renew grace period. This fee will be billed at USD 0.18 per transaction." as quoted from https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/registrar-billin...

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by gbil »

Scoundreller wrote: post #711
gbil wrote: post #383

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this is not new, this is everyday life with helping hands, on duty engineers, l2-l3 levels telling people with physical access which commands to run etc. etc. etc.

Then you have security issues like this where someone impersonates a client with helping hands and drains your exchanges hot wallet: https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/canadian-bitcoins-...

This is not a real datacenter case but normal social hacking. On the datacenter side you have many more security checks plus many of the times the helping hands and engineers are part of the same company, using internal communication tools etc. so they are on the same logical footprint anyhow

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by busymom0 »

gridder wrote: post #480
busymom0 wrote: post #426

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Yep. I am the developer of HN client HACK for iOS and Android and a bunch of users emailed me asking if my app was broken. Looks like something bigger is afoot.

Best HN client app ever. Thanks for the great work!

Thank you!

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by busymom0 »

alexdumitru wrote: post #611
busymom0 wrote: post #426

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Yep. I am the developer of HN client HACK for iOS and Android and a bunch of users emailed me asking if my app was broken. Looks like something bigger is afoot.

Something's wrong with your app. It's not working at all, while Harmonic works perfectly.

Harmonic most likely uses Algolia for the data whereas my app uses the HN website. So Algolia delivers a cache copy from their own servers whereas mine scrapes the HN website itself. Hence the difference. Also logged out pages were working much better than logged in (HN delivers caches copies for logged out users).

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by 6510 »

DreamScatter wrote: post #974
6510 wrote: post #616

Reminds me of a story Jack Fresco use to tell were financial workers were unable to get to work because a bridge was not usable. People were worried about terrible consequences if all these important people were unable to do their work. To their surprise life just continued as if nothing changed.

Do you mean Jacque Fresco?

yes

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

gocartStatue wrote: post #666
rStar wrote: post #652

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time to start working at your mfing desk again, johnson

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

Why would a system like that have to be in their online infrastructure?
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