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Facebook is apparently getting DDOSed

ItsGreat

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I imagine the amount of messages backed up and queued to send must be immense.

How will they deal with the backlog?
 
rofif

rofif

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This is kinda scary. Now I can't even send message with sms (t-mobile).
Lol you can see how much sms traffic messenger and whatsapp consumed
 
Hinedorf

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It's funny to think I didn't know any of this was going on until it was mentioned on the sports show I'm watching. Facebook is down....oh who cares lol
 
Punished Miku

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I'm 100% rooting for the hackers on this one. Get em' guys!

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I

isual

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Its interesting because they havent sent out an internal email stating the status of the situation. Its just down.
 
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SidViscous

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Someone fucked up their nameserver and wiped the DNS settings for the domains, should be easy to fix so curious why it's been down so long.

You can't start any paid-for apps on the Oculus Quest either.
 
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segasonic

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www.zdnet.com

What took Facebook down

DNS appears to be a symptom of the root cause of Facebook's global failure. Hours later, Facebook finally came back up.
www.zdnet.com www.zdnet.com

The old network troubleshooting saying is, when anything goes wrong, "It's DNS." This time Domain Name Server (DNS) appears to be the symptom of the root cause of the Facebook global failure. The true cause is that there are no working Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook's sites.
Cloudflare VP Dane Knecht was the first to report the underlying BGP problem. This meant, as Kevin Beaumont, former Microsoft's Head of Security Operations Centre, tweeted, "By not having BGP announcements for your DNS name servers, DNS falls apart = nobody can find you on the internet. Same with WhatsApp btw. Facebook have basically deplatformed themselves from their own platform.
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As annoying as this is to you, it may be even more annoying to Facebook employees. There are reports that Facebook employees can't enter their buildings because their "smart" badges and doors were also disabled by this network failure. If true, Facebook's people literally can't enter the building to fix things.
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Ramenporn also stated that it wasn't an attack, but a mistaken configuration change made via a web interface. What really stinks -- and why Facebook is still down hours later -- is that since both BGP and DNS are down, the "connection to the outside world is down, remote access to those tools don't exist anymore, so the emergency procedure is to gain physical access to the peering routers and do all the configuration locally." Of course, the technicians on site don't know how to do that and senior network administrators aren't on site. This is, in short, one big mess.
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JLB

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xrnzaaas said:
Maybe people should stop being dependant on a single service, then? Especially those not in private sector? It's always good to have options and this goes for everything, including software used to communicate with other people.
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The reason of people using Whatsapp is due to SMS cost overseas. Since then, WAP became teh defacto option, and pretty much became an indisputable monopoly. Its not easy to switch to something else when retirees, grandpand and grandmas, and even embeddded public systems are tied to it.
 
JLB

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Nitty_Grimes said:
Not shitting on your parade friend but why would you rely on a third party app for your emergency services with no contingencies?
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Its not me, its the whole world. I have Telegram and Signal as well, but when everyone else is using it what can I do? Chat there alone lol?
 
JLB

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As I supposed before, something big is going on.


edit: just to give context, this *might* be because someone inside FB buildling screwed up something bigly, and probably intentionally.
 
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Stitch

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MJackson said:
Someone fucked up their nameserver and wiped the DNS settings for the domains, should be easy to fix so curious why it's been down so long.

You can't start any paid-for apps on the Oculus Quest either.
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I fired up Virtual Desktop just fine
 
SafeOrAlone

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I use Instagram like once every week or two to communicate with someone overseas. For that reason, I am hoping it goes back up soon.
 
JLB

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Virt McPolygon said:
It seems that all of their internal stuff is down.

I'm curious if this could last as long as some of those DDoS attacks back in 2014 that affected online services.
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thats what I originally supposed. But maybe is FB taking a hard measure and literally blocking any access to secured rooms.

Also, indirect DNS lookups are making lost of other services to suffer. It could be reasonable if Twitter starts to go very slow or down.
 
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rofif

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JLB said:


As I supposed before, something big is going on.


edit: just to give context, this *might* be because someone inside FB buildling screwed up something bigly, and probably intentionally.
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what does a badge kms have to do with internet?
That is just intranet
 
JLB

JLB

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rofif said:
what does a badge kms have to do with internet?
That is just intranet
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Nothing, just pure speculation on my end that maybe theres a security breach inside the company and they want to prevent any access to secured rooms.
 
Von Hugh

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"I suspect it will end up being Facebook's longest and most severe failure to date before it's fixed."

Time for some new players to enter the game and replace FB, IG and Whatsapp.

And hopefully they use AWS, Azure or GCP instead of the private cloud or servers implementation of Facebook.
 
Gp1

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WhatsApp is HUGE in Latin America and countries like Brazil, India and some parts of Europe. It's used in virtually everything.
My phone is basically dead silent the entire day but everything that really matters i do via email or skype so... business as usual...

As for Facebook and Instagram, nothing of value was lost.
 
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Bragr

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Virt McPolygon said:
This happens at least once per year.

It's cyclical as long as leadership at the top stays the same. Facebook is not just that old platform you used to use and maybe your old relatives still do. Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus are owned by Facebook.

The "Facebook products are bad for you" news story is nothing new and people continue to use them, so nothing changes. There are alternatives but people suck at putting in a little effort when it comes to changing habits.
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I think it's more that people aren't able to change habits if they don't have to. It all needs to go, people will never be able to fix or save themselves.
 
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FingerBang said:
To all the people here celebrating: You do get that those platforms aren't only to post pictures of your ass but people rely on them for communicating as well?
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JLB said:
Maybe some US people is not aware of, but WhatsApp is a major, key part for essential daily basis activities, both private and public in the rest of the world. Police, trucks, public offices for retirees, supermarkets, hospitals among many other depend on it. I can tell you without hesitation that this shutdown has provoked many indirect deaths for sure, and monumental economic losses.
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An important lesson has been learnt, never to rely on one company for your communications needs, without any backup channels in place. There are many alternatives available to WhatsApp: Signal/Telegram/Skype
 
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