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Re: Facebook post-mortems...


From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:29:37 -0400


People keep repeating this but I don't think it's true.


My comment is solely sourced on my direct observations on my network, maybe
30-45 minutes in.

Everything except a few /24s disappeared from DFZ providers, but I still
heard those prefixes from direct peerings. There was no disaggregation that
I saw, just the big stuff gone. This was consistent over 5 continents from
my viewpoints.

Others may have seen different things at different times. I do not run an
eyeball so I had no need to continually monitor.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 10:22 AM Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net> wrote:

* telescope40 () gmail com (Lou D) [Tue 05 Oct 2021, 15:12 CEST]:
Facebook stopped announcing the vast majority of their IP space to
the DFZ during this.

People keep repeating this but I don't think it's true.

It's probably based on this tweet:
https://twitter.com/ryan505/status/1445118376339140618

but that's an aggregate adding up prefix counts from many sessions.
The total number of hosts covered by those announcements didn't vary
by nearly as much, since to a significant extent it were more specifics
(/24) of larger prefixes (e.g. /17) that disappeared, while those /17s
stayed.

(There were no covering prefixes for WhatsApp's NS addresses so those
were completely unreachable from the DFZ.)


        -- Niels.


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