Facebook is experiencing a major outage today. Somebody must have posted the truth. Did the Russians do it?

Gonna be a lot of people who don't know what to do with their time...

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Originally posted by HayesGreener:
Facebook is experiencing a major outage today. Somebody must have posted the truth. Did the Russians do it?

I am betting china.

But their whole suite of apps is down. massager, facespace, instashit, and whatsit.

Bless their heart

I hope they can't get it back.

I hope it never comes back. I bet people are freaking out.

Nice internet app you have there. Shame if anything happened to it... Couldn't happen to a more deserving set of people.



Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Worldwide After DNS Records Vanish; Employees Badges Reportedly Not Working


https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...ience-global-outages

I know my own personal productivity and happiness level went up once I ditched that POS app from hell in January and never looked back.

And I was a heavy FB user too since 2007

DONE

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Downdector reports that Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger are experiencing issues and /or outages worldwide. The outage comes just before a Facebook whistleblower is set to testify before Congress on Tuesday.

Link

How funny. I ditched my FB account just after the election last year. However, my son is in football this year and the coach posts game video in a FB Group. My wife created a FB account so we can view the videos.

Today is like the 5th time I've going to FB this year (5 games), and I thought there was a problem with my connection/VPN. I rebooted my machine, tried 2 different browsers... I was trying to figure out what the heck was going on!

I wonder if Facebook was on the list of things dementia Joe told the Russians not to hack.

I heard (from a perhaps unreliable source) that their DNS listing went away. i.e. didn't get renewed.

is there someone at FB right now going, "Oh crap, was that renewal due today?"

Some kind of scandal involving a whistleblower on the major news networks this morning. Maybe this is the cause. A little CYA maybe?

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Originally posted by radioman:
I heard (from a perhaps unreliable source) that their DNS listing went away. i.e. didn't get renewed.

Can't believe everything you read on the 'net

$ whois facebook.com
   Domain Name: FACEBOOK.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 2320948_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.registrarsafe.com
   Registrar URL: http://www.registrarsafe.com
   Updated Date: 2021-09-22T19:33:41Z
   Creation Date: 1997-03-29T05:00:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2030-03-30T04:00:00Z

They appear to run their own DNS servers:

   Name Server: A.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
   Name Server: B.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
   Name Server: C.NS.FACEBOOK.COM
   Name Server: D.NS.FACEBOOK.COM

so nothing there would "expire."

What's really weird is one would assume one or more of their four DNS servers would be on widely-separated networks with completely different backbone connectivity, and with each having redundant backbone connectivity.

Yet DNS queries for "facebook.com" time out, indicating none of them are reachable.

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Originally posted by fiasconva:
Some kind of scandal involving a whistleblower on the major news networks this morning. Maybe this is the cause. A little CYA maybe?

Or the result. I heard that on the radio this morning too. Too much of a coincidence for this to be unrelated to it. My roommate will be devastated, she lives for FB. Well, that and Netflix.

For the computer and networking tech geeks on SF: Current scuttlebutt suggests it's a BGP issue.

If FB's routes disappeared from the BGP routing tables for some reason, all their Internet connectivity, regardless of how how widely-separated were their data centers, would simply go away.

Ok, confirmed:

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<geek_friend> all their prefixes were withdrawn via BGP right before the dns stuff blew up
<me> So they were effectively disconnected from the Internet
<geek_friend> yup
<me> Yikes!
<me> Hack?
<geek_friend> doubtful
<me> Screwup?
<geek_friend> yeah most likely

BGP, so the non-geeks can kind of follow along, is Border Gateway Protocol. Essentially the routing protocol between major network nodes.

If your BGP route prefixes disappear: You're still there, but the Internet doesn't know how to get to you. It'd be as if somebody was trying to get to your house for the first time and all the major route street signs were removed.

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What's really weird is one would assume one or more of their four DNS servers would be on widely-separated networks with completely different backbone connectivity, and with each having redundant backbone connectivity.

I know absolutely nothing about computers.

I read reports in the other thread about company phones not working, as well as other security measures not working. I'm not so sure those issues would be related to what you are describing.

Take the access control for example. These are certainly controlled by a "computer", but not some server farm located off site. This is generally on site, and accessible via an internet connection from off site. So although features of the system may have stopped working, it shouldn't have completely stopped working.

So what else is going on here?

is there a downside to having FacePlant bite the dust?

might take money out of Fuckerberg's bank account

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
I read reports in the other thread about company phones not working, as well as other security measures not working. I'm not so sure those issues would be related to what you are describing.

Their phones are almost certainly IP phones. Same network connectivity as everything else.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Take the access control for example. These are certainly controlled by a "computer", but not some server farm located off site.

The evidence would suggest they are.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
So what else is going on here?

Explained in subsequent post. It isn't their DNS or their domain registrations. It's an Internet backbone routing issue.

Back up here.

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Originally posted by Pyker:
Back up here.

Yup. They're back.