massive facebook outage presently

Mon Oct 4 21:16:25 UTC 2021

On 10/4/21 4:47 PM, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote:
>  
> dig @c.gtld-servers.net. facebook.com. NS
> ;;
> facebook.com.           172800  IN      NS      a.ns.facebook.com.
> facebook.com.           172800  IN      NS      b.ns.facebook.com.
> facebook.com.           172800  IN      NS      c.ns.facebook.com.
> facebook.com.           172800  IN      NS      d.ns.facebook.com.
> 
> What happens if the NS aren’t back within 48 hours?

Facebook can just update it at the registrar.

$ whois facebook.com
   Domain Name: FACEBOOK.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 2320948_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.registrarsafe.com
   Registrar URL: http://www.registrarsafe.com
   Updated Date: 2021-09-22T19:33:41Z
   Creation Date: 1997-03-29T05:00:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2030-03-30T04:00:00Z
   Registrar: RegistrarSafe, LLC

$ dig @c.gtld-servers.net. registrarsafe.com. NS
;;
registrarsafe.com.      172800  IN      NS      a.ns.facebook.com.
registrarsafe.com.      172800  IN      NS      b.ns.facebook.com.
registrarsafe.com.      172800  IN      NS      c.ns.facebook.com.
registrarsafe.com.      172800  IN      NS      d.ns.facebook.com.

crap....

Vertical integration is a hell of a thing.
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