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

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Oct 5 19:23:06 EDT 2021


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Dobson" <lists at tdobson.net>

> On 05/10/2021 21:07, Mike Bolitho wrote:
>> That's definitely possible but what team doesn't have their management
>> IPs somewhere other than DNS? That seems crazy to me.
> 
> Like stored in an internal information management system in your own IP
> space? Whoops.
> 
> I'd imagine that storing that sort of information outside of facebook
> could have contravened their own policies on data security.

Yup; management is the balancing of tradeoffs.

I suspect the people down below the rank of colonel who knew this was gonna
happen damnit will get a better hearing this week than last...

Cheers,
-- jra
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