massive facebook outage presently

Matt Hoppes mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net
Mon Oct 4 20:56:22 UTC 2021


Yes,
We've seen that.

On 10/4/21 4:33 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> I am starting to see reports that in ISPs with very large numbers of 
> residential users, customers are starting to press the factory-reset 
> buttons on their home routers/modems/whatever, in an attempt to make 
> Facebook work. This is resulting in much heavier than normal first tier 
> support volumes. The longer it stays down the worse this is going to get.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:30 PM Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net 
> <mailto:jay at west.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 10/4/21 12:11, bzs at theworld.com <mailto:bzs at theworld.com> wrote:
>      >
>      > Although I believe it's generally true that if a company appears
>      > prominently in the news it's liable to be attacked I assume because
>      > the miscreants sit around thinking "hmm, who shall we attack today oh
>      > look at that shiny headline!" I'd hate to ascribe any altruistic
>      > motivation w/o some evidence like even a credible twitter post (maybe
>      > they posted that on FB? :-)
> 
>     I personally believe that the outage was caused by human error and not
>     something malicious. Time will tell.
> 
>     However, if you missed the 60 Minutes piece, it was a former employee
>     who spoke out with some rather powerful observations. I don't think
>     that
>     this type of worldwide outage was caused by an outside bad actor. It is
>     certainly within the realm of possibility that it was an inside job.
> 
>     In other news:
> 
>     https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445100931947892736?s=20
> 
>     -- 
>     Jay Hennigan - jay at west.net <mailto:jay at west.net>
>     Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
>     503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
> 


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