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> 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
by 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...