Re: Facebook post-mortems...

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

jcurran () istaff org wrote:
> Fairly abstract - Facebook Engineering - 
> https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A10158791436142200%7D&path=%2Fnotes%2Fnote%2F&_rdr 
> <https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params={"note_id":10158791436142200}&path=/notes/note/&_rdr>
>
> Also, Cloudflare’s take on the outage - 
> https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
>
> FYI,
> /John
This may be a dumb question, but does this suggest that Facebook 
publishes rather short TTLs for their DNS records?  Otherwise, why would 
an internal failure make them unreachable so quickly?

Miles Fidelman

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