so uh. what on earth happened to the internet while we were away most of today
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i'm seeing people mocking facebook for going down and somehow that took down half the internet with it??
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@Austin_Dern what the fuck why are their door locks connected to facebook
why are they connected to the internet anyway and not some local-only network
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@Felthry I don't know, and I don't know whether I believe it. Any situation like this there's a lot of people putting (often funny) jokes out but it's not always obvious what's true and false.
Does seem like a contributing factor to the problem lasting was many people working remotely, so they were short on people who could actually touch a for-real router or server or whatever.
@Felthry @Austin_Dern they're not connected to Facebook the software but they probably route their web requests through a domain owned by Facebook (if not a subdomain of facebook.com)
@Felthry @Austin_Dern I read that they had to use an angle grinder to reach the servers
@Austin_Dern @Felthry it's the kind of thing that makes me wanna become ops
@Felthry Yeah, *apparently* some kind of routine upgrade work screwed up their DNS registrations on a very deep level, and it screwed up all the sites that depend on Facebook.
I saw some Birdsite giggling that, apparently, part of what made it hard to fix things is tech teams use Facebook-connected services to coordinate activity and now that was gone.
Also *allegedly* some of their techs were locked out of buildings and sections by Internet-connected door locks that routed through Facebook.