2021-10-05
@briankrebs Cloudflare has a good explainer on what appears to have happened. What is crazy is that they didn't appear to have an out-of-band management channel in place to reconfigure routers - and needed to go onsite to reconfigure. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...
9to5Mac
Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours
Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now …
@briankrebs Cloudflare has a good explainer on what appears to have happened. What is crazy is that they didn't appear to have an out-of-band management channel in place to reconfigure routers - and needed to go onsite to reconfigure. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...
The Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare says prior to Facebook's outage, Facebook issued several BGP updates, causing DNS resolution errors that knocked Facebook off the web
“Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. — Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled …