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RE: massive facebook outage presently
From: Jean St-Laurent via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 16:47:15 -0400
The glue records for the NS are set at 48 hours. dig @c.gtld-servers.net. facebook.com. NS ;; facebook.com. 172800 IN NS a.ns.facebook.com. facebook.com. 172800 IN NS b.ns.facebook.com. facebook.com. 172800 IN NS c.ns.facebook.com. facebook.com. 172800 IN NS d.ns.facebook.com. What happens if the NS aren’t back within 48 hours? Jean From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+jean=ddostest.me () nanog org> On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke Sent: October 4, 2021 4:33 PM To: Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>; nanog () nanog org list <nanog () nanog org> Subject: Re: massive facebook outage presently I am starting to see reports that in ISPs with very large numbers of residential users, customers are starting to press the factory-reset buttons on their home routers/modems/whatever, in an attempt to make Facebook work. This is resulting in much heavier than normal first tier support volumes. The longer it stays down the worse this is going to get. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:30 PM Jay Hennigan <jay () west net <mailto:jay () west net> > wrote: On 10/4/21 12:11, bzs () theworld com <mailto:bzs () theworld com> wrote:
Although I believe it's generally true that if a company appears prominently in the news it's liable to be attacked I assume because the miscreants sit around thinking "hmm, who shall we attack today oh look at that shiny headline!" I'd hate to ascribe any altruistic motivation w/o some evidence like even a credible twitter post (maybe they posted that on FB? :-)
I personally believe that the outage was caused by human error and not something malicious. Time will tell. However, if you missed the 60 Minutes piece, it was a former employee who spoke out with some rather powerful observations. I don't think that this type of worldwide outage was caused by an outside bad actor. It is certainly within the realm of possibility that it was an inside job. In other news: https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445100931947892736?s=20 -- Jay Hennigan - jay () west net <mailto:jay () west net> Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
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