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My understanding is that the Facebook network itself was unreachable from the internet because of BGP. So even if an IP was resolved from DNS, that IP wouldn’t
by noahtallen 5y ago
My understanding is that the Facebook network itself was unreachable from the internet because of BGP. So even if an IP was resolved from DNS, that IP wouldn’t get routed to Facebook because it withdrew its routes from its peers where it connects to ISPs via BGP
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoNot if the IP was 127.0.0.1...
- messe 5y agoThat's precisely what my ISP did. In fact, they went a step further and appear to have hijacked all unencrypted DNS queries. I was able to run DNS queries using 'example.com' as my DNS server and get a response.