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."
Message saying DNS error (Score:2, Interesting)
It wasn't your browser having a DNS error, it was the user facing servers at Facebook reporting DNS problems talking to whoever they talk to. Maybe when they decided the way to fix the problem was to take down the site, they just removed the back end server cluster from their internal DNS.
They get no monies from me! (Score:1, Interesting)
With all the adblocking software, no scripting, and other misc Firefox plugins I have no ads from facebook, let alone any other page. Firefox is set to delete cookies and BS on exit and I keep my machine clean with bleachbit.
Facebook allows me to connect with lots of people I never would see, like buddies in the Army based in Japan for instance or friends in New York etc, etc.
I hide all the annoying spam adds for peoples stupid farms, I have convinced many of my Facebook friends and family to stop playing those games and to take similar precautions.
Every company is evil, hell even my Linux distro has political agendas, ( damn Mint Linux!!! ) but what does it really matter? It is the cost of using technology. Until we change our idea about advancing ourselves and not our pocket books nothing will change, so stop with the Q_Q and pew pew, and just deal with and be smart about what you do.
Re:DNS? (Score:2, Interesting)
I can understand why that may cause people to think the problem is with DNS. The error message looks like it came from an http proxy. That would suggest that either the user had a proxy configured or facebook were using a reverse proxy. If it was the later, the DNS "problem" would be inside their network.
Re:Ageism (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I disagree (Score:2, Interesting)
Yet, you failed to notice that /. is a site for nerds.
Many nerds do not thrive to cultivate their social skills.
Checking their friends status on social network might not be on top of their agendas.
So: event was notable, but not very important to many slashdotters.