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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by arrosenberg on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:53PM (#28751953)
I love a good tinfoil hat theory, but in this case I doubt it. I have FB blocked on my network via pihole, but I don't explicitly block Instagram. Until sometime late last week (I noticed on Saturday), blocking facebook.com also blocked Instagram. As of this weekend, Instagram works just fine even with those blocks in place.

I suspect Facebook was making some change to their DNS generally, and they made some kind of mistake in deployment that blew up this morning.

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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by joezydeco on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:03PM (#28752058)
I'll take the other side of that bet. Who messes with routing tables at noon on a Monday?
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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by lwhi on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:14PM (#28752156)
Someone who doesn't want to deploy on a Friday?
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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by edgyquant on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:27PM (#28752973)
They deployed this morning that doesn’t imply they implemented anything. I can’t think of a better time that way you have the whole week work on anything that uncovers. Or in the case of something this big they have the rest of the day to freak out.
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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by Diederich on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:43PM (#28752452)
When I worked there a few years ago, the routing tables were being updated almost all day every day, primarily via automated processes.
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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by IceNotNice on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:23PM (#28752242)
It sounds like the perfect time honestly. If you fuck something up, you have the whole week to fix it.
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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by arrosenberg on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:18PM (#28752196)
I was thinking more of the ticking time-bomb variety, but that seems as good a time as any?
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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by Yoric on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:44PM (#28752460)
Nah, a ticking time-bomb would "explode" on Christmas (or Aïd El Kebir, etc.), whenever most of the employees who could do something about it are absent.
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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by arrosenberg on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:50PM (#28752530)
Still wasn't clear enough with my analogy! I was thinking more like a dam failure due to operator/designer error, not sabotage (but who knows). The damage is really small signs initially, followed by rolling catastrophic failures.
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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by Yoric on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:16PM (#28753598)
Ah, my bad, I misread your comment!

Yeah, that could happen.

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