Miscellaneous Tech News
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare.Issue seems to be related to BGP routes. However, this does not necessarily make sense as regions that connect to Facebook without going over the Internet are ALSO down, completely.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare.Issue seems to be related to BGP routes. However, this does not necessarily make sense as regions that connect to Facebook without going over the Internet are ALSO down, completely.
On my end, Facebook DNS entries are non-existent.
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@scottalanmiller Yup Facebook down
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare.Issue seems to be related to BGP routes. However, this does not necessarily make sense as regions that connect to Facebook without going over the Internet are ALSO down, completely.
On my end, Facebook DNS entries are non-existent.
So they have two issues.
No DNS entries AND no BGP routes... holy cow!
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare.Issue seems to be related to BGP routes. However, this does not necessarily make sense as regions that connect to Facebook without going over the Internet are ALSO down, completely.
On my end, Facebook DNS entries are non-existent.
CF said that DNS was only removed after BGP removed the IPs.
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last few hours I have had issues getting to ML and to Microsoft.. I suspect - it's related.
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@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
last few hours I have had issues getting to ML and to Microsoft.. I suspect - it's related.
I had issues with telegram 20 mins ago..
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@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
last few hours I have had issues getting to ML and to Microsoft.. I suspect - it's related.
No trouble with ML for me.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update. -
@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.How does that affect DNS?
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.How does that affect DNS?
Disclaimer:
I do not own, did not write the article describing the issues with Facebook et al, or BGP. -
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
DNS—short for Domain Name System—is the service that translates human-readable hostnames (like arstechnica.com) to raw, numeric IP addresses (like 18.221.249.245). Without working DNS, your computer doesn't know how to get to the servers that host the website you're looking for. The problem goes deeper than Facebook's obvious DNS failures, though. Facebook-owned Instagram was also down, and its DNS services—which are hosted on Amazon rather than being internal to Facebook's own network—were functional. Instagram and WhatsApp were reachable but showed HTTP 503 failures (no server is available for the request) instead, an indication that while DNS worked and the services' load balancers were reachable, the application servers that should be feeding the load balancers were not. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
Huh - wonder where I have read that before....
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
We have customers reporting that Vitelity is losing calls now, too.
Theirs is not a DDoS. They have had multiple technical issues over recent weeks.
https://status.vitelity.com/historyOh, just general problems with similar timing.
A little follow up was posted on the FreePBX community.
https://community.freepbx.org/t/vitelity-net-down/78373/17
@adell444 posted:In regard to Vitelity, I had a call with them today which included the Director of their Voice Engineering and their NOC director. Basically:
- They have been working towards upgrading their infrastructure to be in line with Inteliquent, and on the same network as theirs. This is largely the cause, or indirectly related to the cause of their recent issues in the last few months.
- They have had to roll back their outbound platform migration, but are saying that they have roughly 20% of their customer base on the new platform running without issue. However, being on this new platform would not have avoided the service issues they had on 9/22 and 9/30-10/1. The issues they had on 9/14 were not experienced by anyone on the platform.
- They are hoping to have their infrastructure upgraded by “Thanksgiving” is what they said. Worst case is Q1 2022. They did not inspire confidence when speaking about possible issues between now and then.
- The issue from 9/30-10/1 seems to be something different, but they were not able to tell me anything other than it being an “Exterior Network Event”. This in particular sounds different than the previous issues since they really could not provide me with any information, though I am only speculating.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they have more issues in the next few months related to their infrastructure. I hope this information is useful to anyone reading.
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Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
.Syniverse and carriers haven't revealed whether text messages were exposed.
Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access to customers' text messages. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week said that "in May 2021, Syniverse became aware of unauthorized access to its operational and information technology systems by an unknown individual or organization. Promptly upon Syniverse's detection of the unauthorized access, Syniverse launched an internal investigation, notified law enforcement, commenced remedial actions and engaged the services of specialized legal counsel and other incident response professionals." -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
.Syniverse and carriers haven't revealed whether text messages were exposed.
Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access to customers' text messages. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week said that "in May 2021, Syniverse became aware of unauthorized access to its operational and information technology systems by an unknown individual or organization. Promptly upon Syniverse's detection of the unauthorized access, Syniverse launched an internal investigation, notified law enforcement, commenced remedial actions and engaged the services of specialized legal counsel and other incident response professionals."Wow - didn't know most if not all US SMS went through a single carrier like that.
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Game-streaming platform Twitch has been the victim of a leak, reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.
One would think streamer earnings is confidential company information.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.
One would think streamer earnings is confidential company information.
LOL, true.
