The CF post mortem looks sensible, and a good summary of what we all saw from the outside with BGP routes being withdrawn.
Given the fragility of BGP, this could still end up being a malicious attack. -mel via cell > On Oct 4, 2021, at 6:19 PM, Jay Hennigan <j...@west.net> wrote: > > On 10/4/21 17:58, jcur...@istaff.org wrote: >> Fairly abstract - Facebook Engineering - >> https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A10158791436142200%7D&path=%2Fnotes%2Fnote%2F&_rdr >> >> <https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params={"note_id":10158791436142200}&path=/notes/note/&_rdr> > > I believe that the above link refers to a previous outage. The duration of > the outage doesn't match today's, the technical explanation doesn't align > very well, and many of the comments reference earlier dates. > >> Also, Cloudflare’s take on the outage - >> https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ >> <https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/> > > This appears to indeed reference today's event. > > -- > Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net > Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 > 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
