Facebook Outage Visualized: Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp fell off the internet today

Описание: 6:12 - Bad Car Analogy
3:49 - Outage Starts as routes to authoritative DNS servers are removed from BGP
4:54 - Last Remaining Route Removed
5:56 - BGP routes to authoritative DNS servers restored

A semi-technical (but hopefully approachable!) walkthrough of things like DNS and BGP and why a likely a seemingly innocent configuration error broke the entire Facebook ecosystem for over 5 hours. Visualization via RIPE BGPlay

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