massive facebook outage presently

Mon Oct 4 20:53:31 UTC 2021

How come such a large operation does not have an out of bound access in
case of emergencies ???

Somebody's getting fired !

-J

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:51 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
wrote:

> It looks like it might take a while according to a news reporter's tweet:
>
> "Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees
> unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of
> outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors."
>
> https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1445099150316503057?s=20
>
> -A
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:41 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> 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> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/4/21 12:11, 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
>>> Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
>>> 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
>>>
>>
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