Wifi and Internet?

[fourx4forfun]

Did you hear anything about FB and couple others being down with undetermined time to be back up today? Even had reports of various wifi issues.

 

[FireInTheWire]

Yup. Hopefully the white hats are playing games with them

 

[lonestardiver]

Even their internal systems are supposedly down. Employees having to use text and outlook to communicate.

Hmmm, and not too long after the whistle blower outed their practices…. I wonder if their homepage will say Hilary was here when this is all said and done.

 

[lonestardiver]

Here is what is known…

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]

The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.

arstechnica.com

 

[fourx4forfun]

Here is what is known…

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]

The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.

arstechnica.com

ahh the old update issue, IT was pushing those all the time without testing by users at one place I worked at and 90% of the time there were all kinds of issues.

 

[Sam7sf]

Lol! Facebook goes down and a thread is started. Give it up.

 

[Grumps21]

Damn good! FB can stay down for good as far as I’m concerned.

 

[HKaltwasser]

Did you hear anything about FB and couple others being down with undetermined time to be back up today? Even had reports of various wifi issues.

Yep, it's affecting a lot more than just social media too apparently.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Technology, just be glad you still drive a fossil fuel burner.

 

[Havok1]

I bought some FB call options after seeing how far their stock fell. So either I will turn a nice little profit on it, or I will lose out but be happy anyway seeing how much they lose.

 

[vmax]

Yup. Hopefully the white hats are playing games with them

White hats as in Q white hats?
Some mysterious powerful group that has sit by and let all this shit go down white hats?

 

[vmax]

Lol! Facebook goes down and a thread is started. Give it up.

My thoughts exactly
People get on here and bitch about FB and they use TGT as FB

 

[glenbo]

I saw a headline on msn saying that corkzuckerberg has lost $7B on stock falling. What a shame.

 

[baboon]

I saw a headline on msn saying that corkzuckerberg has lost $7B on stock falling. What a shame.

That be a good reason for him to off himself sending a message to his facetard family!

 

[GPtwins]

Yup. Hopefully the white hats are playing games with them

White hats don’t play games. That is what the black and/or gray hats do. FB is denying a hack but are not giving reasons for the outage.

 

[Coiled]

Back online, my life can resume.

 

[TheDan]

Why didn't they just have Lazlo power cycle it?

 

[TheDan]

Here is what is known…

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]

The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.

arstechnica.com

/u/ramenporn Update 1440 UTC:

As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that's that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).

There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.

Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.

Update from /u/ramenporn

No discussion that I'm aware of yet that is considering a threat/attack vector.

I believe the original change was 'automatic' (as in configuration done via a web interface). However, now that connection to the outside world is down, remote access to those tools don't exist anymore, so the emergency procedure is to gain physical access to the peering routers and do all the configuration locally.

If that is accurate, it's a pretty impressive screw up. I've hosed a router so bad that console access didn't even work anymore, but was able to walk a datacenter tech through breaking in and getting a backed up config loaded. All in under an hr.

Seems like this break highlighted some operational flaws. It's not that hard to get "the people with physical access", "the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate", and "people who know what to actually do" on a call together. Must be a symptom of having a critical mass of woke diversity hires

...or maybe it was this.

 

[candcallen]

That be a good reason for him to off himself sending a message to his facetard family!

I told Hillary he has hard copies of her emails about the laundering of the clinton foundation Haitian scam money.

Zuckerberg arkancide in .....

3.....
2.....
1......

He was so young.

 

[JCC]

I bought some FB call options after seeing how far their stock fell. So either I will turn a nice little profit on it, or I will lose out but be happy anyway seeing how much they lose.

Good idea! How much did it drop out of curiosity. Smart of you to jump on this. Feels like their stock could only go up.