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.
Boycotting ALL products from the USA as long as that country's leader continues to lie about my native country.
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Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
Boycotting ALL products from the USA as long as that country's leader continues to lie about my native country.
Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Government of Canada: Claiming refugee protection (asylum) from within Canada