[Outages-discussion] FB Outage AAR I - Engineering Posts Pabulum

[George Metz]

If I had to guess (because I was wondering about that too), it was
because they didn't have the IPs of their out-of-band stuff available
and were expecting their DNS to be able to answer... and the DNS
servers functionally shut themselves off.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 2:14 PM Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io> wrote:
>
> "Our primary and out-of-band network access was down"
>
> Sounds like someone doesn't know what "out-of-band" means.
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021, 2:04 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>>
>> This doesn't say anything we don't already know, except where it conflicts
>> with things we already know.  But it's fun to watch, ain't it?  ;-)
>>
>>   https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>>
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