Cloudflare: Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet.
Apparently it was a set of Border Gateway Protocol issues. Without BGP, DNS stops working, and without DNS, there's no way for the Internet to connect to a network. (That's an oversimplification, but not a big one.)
As for commentary, there's this quote from We have some sad news about Facebook. It's coming back after six hours offline
Apparently it was a set of Border Gateway Protocol issues. Without BGP, DNS stops working, and without DNS, there's no way for the Internet to connect to a network. (That's an oversimplification, but not a big one.)
As for commentary, there's this quote from We have some sad news about Facebook. It's coming back after six hours offline
Quote:How could a company of Facebookâs scale get BGP wrong? An early candidate is that aforementioned peering automation gone bad. The astoundingly profitable internet giant hailed the software as a triumph because it saved a single network administrator over eight hours of work each week.
Facebook employs more than 60,000 people. If a change designed to save one of them a day a week has indeed taken the company offline for six or more hours, that's quite something.
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Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
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Boycotting all products from the USA as long as that country's leader continues to threaten to annex my native country.
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Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
Boycotting all products from the USA as long as that country's leader continues to threaten to annex my native country.
Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Government of Canada: Claiming refugee protection (asylum) from within Canada