[talk] FB outage

[Raul Cuza]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 20:55 Isaac (.ike) Levy <ike at blackskyresearch.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Oct 4, 2021, at 7:59 PM, George Rosamond <
> george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/4/21 19:52, steve.b at osfda.org wrote:
> >> Akami, Google, DoD -they all have had serious bgp outages due to config
> mistakes.
> >
> > Yes, we all probably remember Pakistan Telecom...
> >
> > https://www.wired.com/2008/02/pakistans-accid/
> >
> > Then Alex P and a friend turned it into free tickets to DefCon:
> > https://www.wired.com/2008/08/revealed-the-in/
> >
> >> IF that's what it was...
> >
> > Sure, we really have no idea since there's been nothing "official" that
> is totally trustable and believable from a company that is clearly neither.
> >
> > But the reality is that the BGP issues are verifiable...
> >
> > g
>
> But what is FaceBook?
>
> Rocket-
> .ike


What if nobody noticed?

Maybe in BGP v6 we can build in a stochastic feature that turns off the
Internet for an hour. If the number of people who die from that feature is
low enough, it would make the human part of the system more resilient.

- r

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