Re: facebook outage

[Ryan Brooks <ryan () hack net>]

> On Oct 4, 2021, at 4:30 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
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> > On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:21 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
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> > > On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:10 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
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> > > They’re starting to pick themselves back up off the floor in the last two or three minutes.  A few answers getting 
> > > out.  I imagine it’ll take a while before things stabilize, though.
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> > aaaand we’re back:
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> > WoodyNet-2:.ssh woody$ dig www.facebook.com @9.9.9.9
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> So that was, what…  15:50 UTC to 21:05 UTC, more or less…  five hours and fifteen minutes.
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> That’s a lot of hair burnt all the way to the scalp, and some third-degree burns beyond that.
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> Maybe they’ll get one or two independent secondary authoritatives, so this doesn’t happen again.  :-)

DNS was a victim in this outage, not the cause.

>                                -Bill