[talk] FB outage

[Peter Varga]

It is bgp also

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, at 16:35, steve.b at osfda.org wrote:
> CTO recently left.
> 
> 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> 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
>>> > 
>>> > 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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