Facebook-owned sites were down

Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by megous on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:38PM (#28749941)

If only the news reporting was not as stupid as "internet is not working at UPC", instead of DNS resolvers at UPC crashed, here's what you can do...

Anyway, I didn't even notice since I run knot-resolver at home.

I wonder what it will be like connecting Facebook back to the internet, thundering herd and everything...

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by yourad_io on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:27PM (#28750977)

I suspect that the DNS aspect will be fine. The middle DNS servers only need one valid response to cache it for $TTL, but they can't cache SERVFAIL.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by yourad_io on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:15PM (#28753592)

> but they can't cache SERVFAIL.

Correction: according to Cloudflare's blog post, some do cache errors as well.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by megous on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:01PM (#28751357)

I mean connecting your company to the internet when you have billions of devices waiting in the line to fetch updates, or whatever.

Will not that be an issue? Re-enabling routing to such a massive internet service...

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by yourad_io on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:16PM (#28753602)

I suspect it will slowly get there. We'll find out, it is recovering now.

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