massive facebook outage presently

Sabri Berisha sabri at cluecentral.net
Mon Oct 4 18:45:05 UTC 2021


----- On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:41 AM, Baldur Norddahl baldur.norddahl at gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

> I got a mail that Facebook was leaving NLIX. Maybe someone botched the script so
> they took down all BGP sessions instead of just NLIX and now they can't access
> the equipment to put it back... :-)

That's an interesting theory. Once upon a time I saw a billion dollar company suffer
a significant outage after enabling EVPN on a remote site. Took down the entire
backbone, including access to the site.

Thanks,

Sabri


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