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--- took_internet_yesterday [2021/10/05 20:39] – [What is the problem of being largely dependent on one service?] samer
+++ took_internet_yesterday [2021/10/06 08:18] (current) – [Hey, but Facebook and co. is not the Internet] samer
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 ===== Since it is about DNS and BGP, this became very serious =====
-A great article to understand the basics https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
+A great article featuring a clear explanation of the basics: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/.
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+Human behaviour can also be funny: with repeated tries to load the same pages, we now have a surge in DNS requests (as noted by Cloudflare servers).
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 ===== What is the problem of being largely dependent on one service? =====
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 We are definitely living in a guilded age of big tech.
-https://www.somo.nl/how-big-tech-is-becoming-the-government/
+  * https://www.somo.nl/how-big-tech-is-becoming-the-government/
-https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/is-big-tech-too-powerful-ask-google.html
+  * https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/is-big-tech-too-powerful-ask-google.html
+===== The (day after) explanation from inside is not less hilarious =====
+https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
 ===== Some (very) good references to understand what (technically) happened =====
-https://radar.qrator.net/blog/giants_fall_aftershock
+  * https://radar.qrator.net/blog/giants_fall_aftershock
-https://www.bortzmeyer.org/facebook-octobre-2021.html
+  * https://www.bortzmeyer.org/facebook-octobre-2021.html
-https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/
+  * https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/
-https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
+  * https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
-https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/
+  * https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/