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Major DNS resolvers returning "SERVFAIL" status for Facebook.com. Security experts identified the problem as a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) withdrawal of the IP address prefixes in which Facebook's Domain Name System (DNS) servers were hosted, making it impossible for users to resolve Facebook and related domain names, and reach services.
BGP hijacking (sometimes referred to as prefix hijacking, route hijacking or IP hijacking) is the illegitimate takeover of groups of IP addresses by corrupting Internet routing tables maintained using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Border Gateway Protocol ( BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. [ 2] BGP is classified as a path-vector routing protocol, [ 3] and it makes routing decisions based on paths, network policies, or rule-sets configured by a network ...
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the "down-stream" users of each network. Peering is settlement -free, also known as "bill-and-keep" or "sender keeps all", meaning that neither party pays the other in association with the ...
This is a Facebook outage. People using other services may be a byproduct of that, but the outage is all Facebook's. No rename. Facebook is not the Internet, it's one dot-com. Bill Woodcock 22:21, 4 October 2021 (UTC) Reply Yeah, by and large this was a Facebook outage, caused by a misconfiguration pushed by their network team.
Route flapping. In computer networking and telecommunications, route flapping occurs when a router alternately advertises a destination network via one route then another, or as unavailable and then available again, in quick sequence. Route flapping is caused by pathological conditions (hardware errors, software errors, configuration errors ...
Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over allegations that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, officials said Tuesday.
The number one reason for users to quit Facebook was privacy concerns (48%), being followed by a general dissatisfaction with Facebook (14%), negative aspects regarding Facebook friends (13%), and the feeling of getting addicted to Facebook (6%). Facebook quitters were found to be more concerned about privacy, more addicted to the Internet, and ...