facebook outage (resolving)

Mon Oct 4 21:58:18 UTC 2021

Getting the odd message through, but DNS looks good via their Toronto,
Canada pop

% traceroute -q1 -I a.dns.facebook.com
traceroute to star.c10r.facebook.com (31.13.80.8), 64 hops max, 48 byte
packets
 1  torix-core1-10G (67.43.129.248)  0.140 ms
 2  facebook-a.ip4.torontointernetxchange.net (206.108.35.2)  0.880 ms
 3  po103.psw02.yyz1.tfbnw.net (74.119.78.131)  0.365 ms
 4  173.252.67.57 (173.252.67.57)  0.341 ms
 5  edge-star-shv-01-yyz1.facebook.com (31.13.80.8)  0.263 ms
% traceroute6 -q1 -I a.dns.facebook.com
traceroute6 to star.c10r.facebook.com (2a03:2880:f00e:a:face:b00c:0:2)
from 2607:f3e0:0:80::290, 64 hops max, 20 byte packets
 1  toronto-torix-6  0.133 ms
 2  facebook-a.ip6.torontointernetxchange.net  0.532 ms
 3  po103.psw01.yyz1.tfbnw.net  0.322 ms
 4  po1.msw1ah.01.yyz1.tfbnw.net  0.335 ms
 5  edge-star6-shv-01-yyz1.facebook.com  0.267 ms
% traceroute6 -q1 -I d.dns.facebook.com
traceroute6 to star.c10r.facebook.com (2a03:2880:f00e:a:face:b00c:0:2)
from 2607:f3e0:0:80::290, 64 hops max, 20 byte packets
 1  toronto-torix-6  0.126 ms
 2  facebook-a.ip6.torontointernetxchange.net  0.673 ms
 3  po103.psw01.yyz1.tfbnw.net  0.349 ms
 4  po1.msw1ah.01.yyz1.tfbnw.net  0.332 ms
 5  edge-star6-shv-01-yyz1.facebook.com  0.264 ms
% traceroute -q1 -I d.dns.facebook.com
traceroute to star.c10r.facebook.com (31.13.80.8), 64 hops max, 48 byte
packets
 1  torix-core1-10G (67.43.129.248)  0.139 ms
 2  facebook-a.ip4.torontointernetxchange.net (206.108.35.2)  41.394 ms
 3  po103.psw02.yyz1.tfbnw.net (74.119.78.131)  0.285 ms
 4  173.252.67.57 (173.252.67.57)  0.309 ms
 5  edge-star-shv-01-yyz1.facebook.com (31.13.80.8)  0.211 ms
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% host www.facebook.com a.ns.facebook.com
Using domain server:
Name: a.ns.facebook.com
Address: 2a03:2880:f0fc:c:face:b00c:0:35#53
Aliases:

www.facebook.com is an alias for star-mini.c10r.facebook.com.
% host -4 www.facebook.com a.ns.facebook.com
Using domain server:
Name: a.ns.facebook.com
Address: 129.134.30.12#53
Aliases:

www.facebook.com is an alias for star-mini.c10r.facebook.com.
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On 10/4/2021 5:41 PM, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
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> man. 4. okt. 2021 23.33 skrev Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net
> <mailto:woody at pch.net>>:
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>
>
>     > On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:21 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net
>     <mailto:woody at pch.net>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:10 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net
>     <mailto:woody at pch.net>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> They’re starting to pick themselves back up off the floor in
>     the last two or three minutes.  A few answers getting out.  I
>     imagine it’ll take a while before things stabilize, though.
>     >
>     > aaaand we’re back:
>     >
>     > WoodyNet-2:.ssh woody$ dig www.facebook.com
>     <http://www.facebook.com> @9.9.9.9 <http://9.9.9.9>
>
>     So that was, what…  15:50 UTC to 21:05 UTC, more or less…  five
>     hours and fifteen minutes.
>
>     That’s a lot of hair burnt all the way to the scalp, and some
>     third-degree burns beyond that.
>
>     Maybe they’ll get one or two independent secondary authoritatives,
>     so this doesn’t happen again.  :-)
>
>
>
> We have had dns back for a while here but the site is still down. Not
> counting this as over yet.
>
>
>