[outages] Facebook down?

[Zachary Hanna]

If facebook made a major bad BGP route announcement and wreaked havoc across a bunch of peers, I would see it as more relevant. Or if a DDOS impacted one of their upstream providers.

-zth

Zachary Hanna

----- Original Message -----
From: outages-bounces at outages.org <outages-bounces at outages.org>
To: outages at outages.org <outages at outages.org>
Sent: Thu Nov 18 16:11:08 2010
Subject: Re: [outages] Facebook down?

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
>[,,,]
> I agree that Facebook is meaningless from an infrastructure standpoint
> but disagree that it is meaningless from an operations standpoint.

Seconded.  And if it's not meaningless to your operations, it is to
many others'.

We can be slightly inclusive here, for sites which are well enough
known that an outage will be Big News, or we can split the list into a
bunch of sublists which only contain certain types of outages,
segregating it so that people who really only truly care about fiber
and routing can only get fiber and routing outages.  The bandwidth of
discussion for the non-net/infrastructure stuff is low enough that
it's not worth getting worked up about and splitting things, for me.

Your mileage may vary, but we've now wasted more bandwidth on list
arguing about Facebook being relevant than we actually have had
notifications of website outages over the last year-ish, so I think
that the point of diminishing returns has vanished behind us in the
mirror.  If those who object want an infrastructure-only outages list,
please propose one.  Or apply mail filtering or the D key.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com
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