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took_internet_yesterday [2021/10/05 20:35] – [And if you need to become experts in BGP, peering, and Internet Infrastructure] samer | took_internet_yesterday [2021/10/06 08:17] – [Hey, but Facebook and co. is not the Internet] samer | ||
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====== Who took the Internet Yesterday? ====== | ====== Who took the Internet Yesterday? ====== | ||
- | ===== Well, who is not responsible? | + | ===== Well, who is NOT responsible? |
* Not the ministry of telecommunications, | * Not the ministry of telecommunications, | ||
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===== Facebook was suffering ===== | ===== Facebook was suffering ===== | ||
- | To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. (extract from https:// | + | To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms (extract from https:// |
===== Since it is about DNS and BGP, this became very serious ===== | ===== Since it is about DNS and BGP, this became very serious ===== | ||
- | A great article | + | A great article |
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===== Hey, but Facebook and co. is not the Internet ===== | ===== Hey, but Facebook and co. is not the Internet ===== | ||
- | You are right, we were having online courses yesterday, sending emails, watching youtube and netflix videos, and all was fine! The internet is the infrastructure | + | You are right, we were having online courses yesterday, sending emails, watching youtube and netflix videos, and all was fine! The internet is a network of networks |
- | Yes, but Facebook contributes to a huge part of the Internet trafic (as seen on the Amsterdam Internet Exchange Point) : Look at the drop in traffic at the right part of the graph. | + | Yes, but Facebook contributes to a huge part of the Internet trafic (as seen on the Amsterdam Internet Exchange Point): Look at the drop in traffic at the right part of the graph. |
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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? ===== | ===== 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. | We are definitely living in a guilded age of big tech. | ||
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+ | ===== The (day after) explanation from inside is not less hilarious ===== | ||
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===== Some (very) good references to understand what (technically) happened ===== | ===== Some (very) good references to understand what (technically) happened ===== | ||
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took_internet_yesterday.txt · Last modified: 2021/10/06 08:18 by samer