Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage 96
Julie188 writes "That was probably the only time 'DNS' will ever be a trending term on Twitter. The cause was Facebook's 2.5 hour outage on Thursday, which incorrectly told users trying to access the site that a DNS error was to blame. In truth, experts who've read Facebook's explanation say the site went down because Facebook gave itself a distributed denial-of-service attack when a system admin misconfigured a database. So why was DNS blamed? The 27-year-old communications protocol has been known to cause other, somewhat similar outages."
Re:Ageism (Score:1, Funny)
PILFS!
Re:DNS? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ageism (Score:2, Funny)
So? TCP/IP is 36 years old.
Yeah, but it still lives in its parents' basement.
Re:So what? Big Whoop! (Score:3, Funny)
No. Facebook doesn't do data-mining, and they don't serve ads. They simply pull money out of their ass.
You must have interesting firewall logs... (Score:3, Funny)
look at my own /etc/hosts file. From time to time I manage to bite myself on the ass with my block-list
#Below is my custom DNS blocklist
127.0.0.1 om.nom.nom.
user@localhost:~$ ping om.nom.nom.
Re:Duh (Score:3, Funny)
This whole situation does explain why my mother appeared to be sick on the couch at my parent's place on Thursday afternoon when I paid them a visit. With all the shaking and huddling under the covers and looking pale-faced I presumed she had come down with the flu or something.
Then again we're dealing with farmville addicts and you can't reason with addicts.
They aren't addicts, that's patently unfair. They can stop any time they want. What is most admirable about them is that they are simply so time-savvy that they coincide those times at which they wish to stop with the periods during which their crops have to be left to grow. Once the crops are ready for harvest, they desire to play again. It's really very simple and implies no addiction whatsoever.
Seriously though, 2.5 hours? The experience I have with Farmville gives me vague recollection that there are a fair few crops that have a growth period of a hour or less, and given that the crops wither and become unusable in the same time they take to complete their growth makes me wonder how many people petitioned Zynga for free ... well, the game is free so technically (and literally) nothing of value was lost, but still, I'm sure they were crying about something.
Now shut-up, it's nearly 4:01 server time and my rogue still needs the Brewfest boss' dagger to drop for it. 5 times and all I've seen is the mace which I can buy for fuck all anyway. My warlock has had two daggers already; maybe it's payback for the Midsummer event when my rogue got the staff twice and my warlock never saw it. THIS IS SUCH BULLSHIT.