Started by Ben Adler (@bennyhacks) ·
Facebook took itself off the internet in 2021
A config change withdrew the BGP routes to Facebook's DNS servers, so nothing could find facebook.com, and the internal tools needed to fix it were also down. Reportedly engineers had trouble getting into the buildings.
4 sources · 31 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “facebook outage 2021 bgp”
- Ended at
- Domain Name System
The Trail
- “facebook outage 2021 bgp” (google.com)
- 2021 Facebook outage (en.wikipedia.org)
- Border Gateway Protocol (en.wikipedia.org)
- Domain Name System (en.wikipedia.org)
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