[Info-vax] Facebook service outage

[Dave Froble]

On 10/4/2021 4:54 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
> Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Login with FB, etc.,
> are all offline.
>
> The Facebook IP address space and all its services are inaccessible.
>
> Reportedly, this outage is due to erroneous BGP routing announcements.
>
> Reportedly, internal access including badges and badge readers and
> building and door access controls are all offline, and remote access to
> their peer routers is also all offline.
>
> This looks to be one of the biggest service outages around, and with a
> detail—the BGP routing announcements—that y'all might want to consider
> within your business continuity and business recovery plans.
>
>

For those who don't get out much, how about explaining what "BGP routing 
announcements" are.

I could try looking it up, but, you used it, so you explain what it is ...

I just had to find -o Port=, that's my one search for the day ...

:-)

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