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Re: Facebook post-mortems...


From: Ryan Brooks <ryan () hack net>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 11:50:34 -0500



On Oct 5, 2021, at 10:32 AM, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:

If you have some DNS working, you can point it at a static “we are down and we know it” page much sooner,

At the scale of facebook that seems extremely difficult to pull off w/o most of their architecture online.  Imagine 
trying to terminate >billion sessions.

When they started to come back up and had their "We're sorry" page up- even their static png couldn't make it onto the 
wire.


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