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We all remember when facebook.com became unreachable and they had to use a saw to get to the server? Buildings couldn’t be accessed, phone calls couldn’t be mad
by twobitshifter 4y ago
We all remember when facebook.com became unreachable and they had to use a saw to get to the server? Buildings couldn’t be accessed, phone calls couldn’t be made, and emails couldn’t be sent because facebook.com was unreachable. That was just a DNS problem, imagine that happening everywhere.
- raydev 4y ago> We all remember when facebook.com became unreachable and they had to use a saw to get to the server? No one remembers that, because it didn't happen. It was misreported, but the correction never went as viral.
- twobitshifter 4y agoThat’s too bad, I wish it were true, it’s such a great story!
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoLink the source.
- gnarlysasquatch 4y agoIt happened, except for the saw. “[The data centers are] hard to get into… [T]he hardware and routers are designed to be difficult to modify even when you have physical access to them. So it took extra time…” https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/ https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...