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Re: Facebook post-mortems...


From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 22:53:09 -0400

Update about the October 4th outage

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/

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TTFN,
patrick

On Oct 4, 2021, at 9:25 PM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:

The CF post mortem looks sensible, and a good summary of what we all saw from the outside with BGP routes being 
withdrawn. 

Given the fragility of BGP, this could still end up being a malicious attack. 

-mel via cell

On Oct 4, 2021, at 6:19 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay () west net> wrote:

On 10/4/21 17:58, 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>

I believe that the above link refers to a previous outage. The duration of the outage doesn't match today's, the 
technical explanation doesn't align very well, and many of the comments reference earlier dates.

Also, Cloudflare’s take on the outage - https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ 
<https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/>

This appears to indeed reference today's event.

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