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2021-10-06 Science & Technology

Facebook outage caused by a single mistake; has huge implications

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Posted by badanov 2021-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Yeah, DNS is the glue that holds everything together. But nobody pays any attention to it. People let domain names lapse all the time. "Who knew we had to renew it!"

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-10-06 00:30|| 2021-10-06 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 A 'mistake' - that's what they're going with now?

Posted by Raj 2021-10-06 01:45|| 2021-10-06 01:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Mistakes were made....billions lost by the boss...move along nothing happening.

Posted by Joluling Gleque7445 2021-10-06 06:08|| 2021-10-06 06:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Facebook slammed for promoting 1619 Project content: 'Utterly irresponsible'

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-06 07:49|| 2021-10-06 07:49|| Front Page Top

the networks being unavailable meant that Facebook’s door access systems were also offline, physically preventing access.

A truly dumbass network "feature"

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-10-06 14:16|| 2021-10-06 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Always wanted to replace DNS with GPS, altitude, a random # and provider network.

Posted by 3dc 2021-10-06 20:29|| 2021-10-06 20:29|| Front Page Top

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