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I love a good tinfoil hat theory, but in this case I doubt it. I have FB blocked on my network via pihole, but I don't explicitly block Instagram. Until sometim
by arrosenberg 5y ago
I love a good tinfoil hat theory, but in this case I doubt it. I have FB blocked on my network via pihole, but I don't explicitly block Instagram. Until sometime late last week (I noticed on Saturday), blocking facebook.com also blocked Instagram. As of this weekend, Instagram works just fine even with those blocks in place.
I suspect Facebook was making some change to their DNS generally, and they made some kind of mistake in deployment that blew up this morning.
- joezydeco 5y agoI'll take the other side of that bet. Who messes with routing tables at noon on a Monday?
- lwhi 5y agoSomeone who doesn't want to deploy on a Friday?
- arrosenberg 5y agoI was thinking more of the ticking time-bomb variety, but that seems as good a time as any?
- Yoric 5y agoNah, a ticking time-bomb would "explode" on Christmas (or Aïd El Kebir, etc.), whenever most of the employees who could do something about it are absent.
- arrosenberg 5y agoStill wasn't clear enough with my analogy! I was thinking more like a dam failure due to operator/designer error, not sabotage (but who knows). The damage is really small signs initially, followed by rolling catastrophic failures.
- Yoric 5y agoAh, my bad, I misread your comment! Yeah, that could happen.
- IceNotNice 5y agoIt sounds like the perfect time honestly. If you fuck something up, you have the whole week to fix it.
- Diederich 5y agoWhen I worked there a few years ago, the routing tables were being updated almost all day every day, primarily via automated processes.
- edgyquant 5y agoThey deployed this morning that doesn’t imply they implemented anything. I can’t think of a better time that way you have the whole week work on anything that uncovers. Or in the case of something this big they have the rest of the day to freak out.