https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social

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Knowing their experts ran into problems helps me feel better about borking my email server because of a misconfigured DNS setting.

<--- Me when my head hits the pillow

mfs automated all of their routing updates, which is great, until your backbone trunk disconnects and all that automated shit automatically turns off

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

According to the article, the result isn't the work of a hacker or a cyberattack. Glad that's the case.

But between this and last night's 60 Minutes interview, things aren't the best for Facebook.

<--- Me when my head hits the pillow

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I worked at a small ISP and our BGP stuff went crazy. Took a few hours to fix, but we had several thousand customers that were not happy.

We ended up putting a checklist in place and had to have 2 engineers present and using the list when making changes.

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