Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram - All down for you too? mwahahahaaa

[Dan]

Come join in on the facebook is down chat thread.

We'll be taking over the forum here until facebook is back up when we will then still be here.

I'm laughing my socks off.

I rate Russian ransomware attack and they're negotiating via NSA and Putin. They'll be back online within a day tops.

 

[telectrix]

only use wattsappfor sending and receiving pics. as for face ache, it can stay dead forever afaiac. just full of a load of chancers, imbeciles, paedophiles, and other types of arsehole.

 

[James]

only use wattsappfor sending and receiving pics. as for face ache, it can stay dead forever afaiac. just full of a load of chancers, imbeciles, paedophiles, and other types of arsehole.

What a wonderful fish, Are soles. ???

 

[Dan]

Have you calmed down a bit now, @Dan ?

I know you have no love for Facebook, but that’s the quickest response to anything I’ve seen in a long time….

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Boooooo it's back up. Bugger!

If they had hard copies of data being syphned off every few days, they could have had a ransomware attack and just closed all traffic, reverted DNS for a bit, switched the servers round to ones they know don't have the [insert how they got into facebook here] on it, then run some checks and bring them back online.

There's no way DNS would effect three websites using multiple domains and routing, all at the same time.

I'm calling BS on this one. But they've said FU to the Russians and had already got contingencies for this.

 

[celt2005]

The problem was BGP Records (Border Gateway Protocol} were updated by their network team, and caused routing loops on their backbone routers.

Similar issues this year caused Telstra ( Australia )and Rogers ( Canada) to have network outages

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp? – Krebs on Security

 

[littlespark]

I admit I read Facebook… don’t post much myself but I have a Facebook page for business that my wife updates…
Most of my customers use Facebook over any other social media for a number of reasons.

1. Facebook tends to attract older users. (My customer demographic) Kids are more into TikTok and whatever.

2. The Borders are 20 years behind the rest of the country regarding technology.

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[Dan]

It has its uses to be fair mate but I avoid it like the plague. All new social media I give a wide berth to. Though my daughter is was into TikTok I'm trying to get her to work on her website/blog a bit more. I think Santa might be bringing something that'll have Adobe Photoshop on it this year, she seems to want to do things like that. Design things.

I'm glad it's all back to normal for the businesses, and whatsapp my mum uses so need that knocking about. She rang me poor sod, said she had broke her internet and can I fix it, basically over the phone using magic I guess

 

[celt2005]

Further analysis

Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet

Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on.

blog.cloudflare.com

 

[telectrix]

Further analysis

Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet

Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on.

blog.cloudflare.com

so, basically the internet is like 1 big sewer. it can only handle so much sh!t before blocking up.

 

[littlespark]

Did they try turning it off, and switching it back on again?

 

[telectrix]

Did they try turning it off, and switching it back on again?

too logical.

 

[xentrix66]

Good job I hardly use FB, instagram never lol only one I use quite a bit is WhatsApp ...

 

[celt2005]

so, basically the internet is like 1 big sewer. it can only handle so much sh!t before blocking up.

Exactly. Putting incorrect BGP Routes into the head router(s) and allowing them to propagate throughout the system caused other routers to identify ALL the routes from them as DOWN , to stop the route information flooding all the bandwidth ( if routers cannot find routes, they keep trying, hence the dead timers)

Why this was done on Monday morning, and not tested correctly in a lab environment is a question I would like to hear .... this is the official party line though

 

[celt2005]

Did they try turning it off, and switching it back on again?

They probably did, but it still takes time to boot up devices, and for the BGP tables to rebuild with the correct routes

Rebooting can also start other shitstorms, as devices this size are rarely rebooted, and you are on the hook for those issues that were dormant while routers were up

 

[telectrix]

They probably did, but it still takes time to boot up devices, and for the BGP tables to rebuild with the correct routes

Rebooting can also start other shitstorms, as devices this size are rarely rebooted, and you are on the hook for those issues that were dormant while routers were up

could youpossibly translate your posts into English so that us peasants can understand what you are on about?

 

[Lou]

Did they try turning it off, and switching it back on again?

I was watching the news earlier and some bloke on there said that is basically what they did!