[talk] FB outage

[steve.b at osfda.org]

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If it's bgp, happens to all of them...

On 10/4/21 5:28 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> The rumors from my side. I've not verified them all (some are in the 
> twitter feed). We'll see how reliable this is...
>
> But, Facebook does all their own tooling, and it's all down.
> Even internal chat. So they are talking directly via cell phones 
> (system to lookup cell numbers, also down)
> The only way that can provision the bgp routes is via the console of 
> the routers at this point...
> ... but the internal system to get credentials is also down.
> They also need to get someone in front of the console to bring things 
> back online...
> Their tools to coordinate and meet to come up with a plan, also down....
>
> Single point of failure in the extreme.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:20 PM Michael W. Lucas 
> <mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com <mailto:mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     <blink> <blink>
>
>     That's it. Twitter is the next to go.
>
>     ==ml
>
>
>     On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 04:15:39PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
>     > One of the cooler things we can all learn from the
>     Facebook/Instagram/WA
>     > outage is some technical innovations most of you probably missed.
>     >
>     > https://nitter.eu/briankrebs/status/1445077617426718725
>     <https://nitter.eu/briankrebs/status/1445077617426718725>
>     >
>     > Apparently, there are no RFCs for it, but DNS Global Routing
>     Tables is
>     > the place to be. Move over blockchain.
>     >
>     > g
>     >
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