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Re: massive facebook outage presently


From: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:22:29 -0400

Considering the massive impact of this it would be interesting to see some
traffic graphs from ISPs that have PNIs with Facebook, or high volume
peering sessions across an IX, showing traffic to FB falling off a cliff.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:16 PM George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
wrote:

And WhatsApp and Instagram.  Twitter users nationwide agree anecdotally.

What I’m getting is DNS failure.

-George

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 4, 2021, at 9:07 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:


https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

Normally not worth mentioning random $service having an outage here, but
this will undoubtedly generate a large volume of customer service calls.

Appears to be failure in DNS resolution.



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