D Angelo Barksdale Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 I notice that this hell site seems fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunfermline Don Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stellaboz Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Slack last week, now this. This is better though, as long as Netflix and Youporn are accessible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorongil Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 Proud to have broken this story on p&B. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 At least Bebo and MSN are still up and running. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Other half's mum just phoned us up there to ask if we have Facebook, which is evidently (and tragically) her only other source of truth these days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 39 minutes ago, ICTChris said: People who know about it than me are saying that the issue is with Facebook’s Border Gateway Protocol. Priti Patel likes this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Bet you this is all John Swinney's doing just to say "see, even the world's biggest companies have technical glitches, move along..." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 My internet is just fine 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 This is very serious. Isn't 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 A group of men in a white van are trying to steal Facebook. Be a ware. Shared Edinburgh x 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Granny Danger said: My internet is down and I can only post on P&B at the moment. To be fair at your stage in life just having another day above ground is a result for you truth be told. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Flybhoy said: To be fair at your stage in life just having another day above ground is a result for you truth be told. Steady on old chap. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, Snafu said: 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. Surely they can just smash a window. Their alarms are hardly going to be working. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 The Facebook is down? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 2 hours ago, jimbaxters said: Who's Major Internet-Outage? Was he in Soldier Soldier? He's a colleague of this guy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamamafegan Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Maturin Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 14 minutes ago, Snafu said: From https://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. BGP is the standardized exterior gateway protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between the internet top-level autonomous systems (AS). Most people, indeed most network administrators, never need to deal with BGP. 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." Whoops. 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. In the meantime, Reddit user u/ramenporn, who claimed to be a Facebook employee working on bringing the social network back from the dead, reported, before he deleted his account and his messages, that "DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that's that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC)." He continued, "There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified. Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures." 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. As a former network admin who worked on the internet at this level, I anticipate Facebook will be down for hours more. I suspect it will end up being Facebook's longest and most severe failure to date before it's fixed. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 I reckon Myspace is due a comeback. Wonder if thon Tom p***k is still alive? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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