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Facebook & Instagram go down simultaneously this A.M.
« on: October 04, 2021, 02:38:27 PM »
Tried to hop on FacePlace during lunch and got an error. Just now seeing a news blurb that Facebook, Instagram, and several associated services went Tango Uniform about the same time this morning.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-down.html

I would think doxxing, but with all the redundancy and decentralization built into the FB infrastructure, I'm at a loss as to how it could be done.

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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2021, 02:40:51 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2021, 02:42:46 PM »
Quote from: charby on October 04, 2021, 02:40:51 PM
Huh?

DOH!  :facepalm:

Meant DDoS. That's what I get for trying to post while on a phone call.

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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2021, 02:45:56 PM »
What I'm seeing is, some Book of Faces engineer pushed a router upgrade that went south.
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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2021, 02:52:05 PM »
Too many people trashing Biden, posts about theirs whistleblower and the Pandora files release. Mark pulled the plug for a bit while the raids take over pace.  [tinfoil]
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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2021, 02:59:39 PM »
DNS...it is always DNS...
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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2021, 03:06:44 PM »
There are some good memes on twitter. My favorite so far:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1445081890273308675
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« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2021, 03:09:49 PM »
In other news the world's collective IQ went up a few points today
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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2021, 03:15:42 PM »
What do you call Facebook and Instagram going down simultaneously? 

A good start.
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2021, 03:18:01 PM »
whatsapp is down also from what I read.
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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2021, 03:25:35 PM »
Quote from: Nick1911 on October 04, 2021, 03:15:42 PM
What do you call Facebook and Instagram going down simultaneously? 

A good start.

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« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2021, 03:57:55 PM »
I don't care about FaceBook but as an influencer how am I gonna do the influence without the 'Gram? 
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« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2021, 03:58:50 PM »
Quote from: lee n. field on October 04, 2021, 02:45:56 PM
What I'm seeing is, some Book of Faces engineer pushed a router upgrade that went south.
Unpossible.  That stuff never happens. 


I am also wondering what that person gets paid.  (or if they have an H1B visa)
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« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2021, 04:12:18 PM »
I don't do Facebook or Instagram, but some other websites - AFAIK, unrelated to these two - were all but unreachable this morning.
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Re: Facebook & Instagram go down simultaneously this A.M.
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2021, 04:24:22 PM »
Quote from: lee n. field on October 04, 2021, 02:45:56 PM
What I'm seeing is, some Book of Faces engineer pushed a router upgrade that went south.

Post or source?

That should be fixable in short order. Unless they screwed up so badly that it broke TFTP or lost access to the console port.

Although I guess enterprises of that size have tools for mass/aggregate management of routers and ain't going to do them onesy-twosey. So something fundamentally wrong could screw up a boatload of them at once. And then you've got to work your way up the chain from the first device that's actually accessible at a root level in a tree configuration.

Without more to go on than the length of the outage, I'm thinking something screwed up with their internal DNS. Rebuilding tables and propagating the changes can take time.

Not a big FB fan, but it's useful to keep in touch with family, and pushing updates out for Mrs. Dual's funeral arrangements. So I hope this is fixed soon. 
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« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2021, 04:29:52 PM »
was an arstechnica article I saw it in. 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/

Sure has been down a long time.

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Not long after that, Reddit user u/ramenporn reported on the r/sysadmin subreddit that BGP peering with Facebook is down, probably due to a configuration change that was pushed shortly before the outages began.

According to u/ramenporn—who claims to be a Facebook employee and part of the recovery efforts—this is most likely a case of Facebook network engineers pushing a config change that inadvertently locked them out, meaning that the fix must come from data center technicians with local, physical access to the routers in question. The withdrawn routes do not appear to be the result of nor related to any malicious attack on Facebook's infrastructure.
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« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2021, 04:35:04 PM »
Quote from: lee n. field on October 04, 2021, 04:29:52 PM
Facebook network engineers pushing a config change that inadvertently locked them out, meaning that the fix must come from data center technicians with local, physical access to the routers in question

That less an "ooops" and more an "oh, *expletive deleted*it".

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« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2021, 06:31:47 PM »
And it's back.
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« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2021, 06:46:12 PM »
Supposedly the security system that allows access to the Facebook buildings is offline for the same reason.  The folks that must lay hands on the hardware to fix the problem can't get in the building.
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« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2021, 06:46:38 PM »
Quote from: just Warren on October 04, 2021, 06:31:47 PM
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« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2021, 07:41:47 PM »
Quote from: just Warren on October 04, 2021, 06:31:47 PM
And it's back.

In other news the world's collective IQ just went down a few points.
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« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2021, 02:25:29 AM »
Anyone else chuckle as the (hundreds of?)thousands of dollars/minute ticked by at FacistButt & InstaScam this morning? No, just me?
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« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2021, 07:19:28 AM »
Because of the whistleblower the Zuck though it would be a good idea to clear the browser history.
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