Facebook-owned sites were down

Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by yupper32 on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:36PM (#28751750)

The entire purpose of an IRC backup is in case shit hits the fan. That means having it run on a completely separate stack.

What use is it if it runs on the same stack as what you might be trying to fix?

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by jaywalk on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:17PM (#28752189)

Clearly "our entire network is down, worldwide" wasn't part of their planning. Don't get too cocky with your 20/20 hindsight.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by yupper32 on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:42PM (#28752437)

I don't think it's cocky or 20/20 hindsight. Companies I've worked for specifically set up IRC in part because "our entire network is down, worldwide" can happen and you need a way to communicate.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by nl on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:44PM (#28753833)

I bet they never tested taking out their own DNS.

IRC does use DNS at least to get hostnames during connection. I'd be surprised if it didn't use it at other points.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by Retric on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:26PM (#28754481)

I’ve setup hosts files in case DNS was down to access critical systems before. It’s a perfectly reasonable precaution.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by edoceo on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:12PM (#28754795)

My small org, maybe 50 ips/hosts we care about, maintain a hosts file stills, for those nodes public and internal names. It's in Git, spread around and we also have our fingers crossed.

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