[Ari]

Stollen from someone else,
Facebook just discovered ‘move fast and break things’ is a lot worse as you get older.

While a type of amplified distributed DoS can take down even large pipes generally it means you get stuck in the queue with everyone else (amusingly turning users into mini DoSers) but this goes immediately to server not responding, which kinda suggests the pipes are pointing at something that doesn’t exist. Maybe Zuck was deleting incriminating files and got a bit carried away.

According to Krebs on security, the DNS routing information for all of facebook’s systems got removed from the global routing tables this morning seemingly by an update from inside facebook. While this does happen occasionally through errors, this is the first time I’ve heard of such a widespread outage from a single update, as normally companies have multiple checks to prevent one update from screwing everything. So it may still be malicious, from someone with internal access to the company.