[Cialug] Are they OK?

[Brett Neese]

I agree with @foone: DNS is a failed experiment we need to go back to the
days when Elizabeth Feinler personally managed the list of computers on the
internet.

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1445111523186122755?s=21

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 2:35 PM <chris at bynw.com> wrote:

> I saw this on Twitter. The source says it's from a deleted FB employee
> reddit account.
>
> "As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is
> likely a sympton 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 shorty before the outages
> happened.
>
> 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
> thing with getting all that knowledge unified."
>
> chris
>
> On 2021-10-04 14:25, David Champion wrote:
> > See, it's not always DNS... sometimes it's BGP. Which breaks the DNS.
> > Damn,
> > it's always DNS.
> >
> > -dc
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 2:06 PM Brett Neese <brneese at brneese.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "Everything I do breaks"
> >> <
> >>
> https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/the-ceo-of-facebook-still-codes-on-the-side-but-tends-to-break-things/
> >> >-
> >> Mark Zuckerberg, 2012
> >>
> >> This is why we shouldn't let Mark push to prod.
> >>
> >> Brett Neese
> >> 563-210-3459
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:28 PM Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Ya, apparently some think it is a BGP routing issue, and they can't
> fix
> >> it
> >> > till they can physically access those servers.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:26 PM kristau <kristau at protonmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Looks like their .onion link is also down:
> >> > >
> >> > > facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onion
> >> > >
> >> > > So it might be more than "just DNS" as some have speculated?
> >> > >
> >> > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> >> > >
> >> > > On Monday, October 4th, 2021 at 1:09 PM, David Champion <
> >> > > dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > Has anyone checked in with our friends those big warehouse lookin'
> >> > > >
> >> > > > buildings in Altoona to see if they're doing OK? Maybe we should
> >> send a
> >> > > >
> >> > > > care package with coffee and / or hard liquor?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > -dc
> >> > > >
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Brett Neese
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