[conspire] Cloudflare points finger at Facebook's self own

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Dire Red (deirdre at deirdre.net):

> https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
> They stopped announcing their BGP routes.

More and more comedy gold is emerging about this.  I expect the
entertaining details will continue for a time.

@cullend wrote:

   Lmao. Friend at Facebook confirmed they ended up bringing in a guy
   with an angle grinder to get access to the server cage

Why?  Because employee badges aren't working.

Deirdre read that to me and got a big chuckle, but _this_ had me
laughing _very_ hard:


@cullend (2h ago) wrote:

  lmao.  [Screencap of:]

  "facebook.com is registered with 
  "registrarsafe.com" as registrar.  "registrarsafe.com" 
  is unreachable because it's using Facebook's DNS
  servers and is probably a unit of Facebook.  
  "registrarsafe.com" is registered wtih
  "registrarsafe.com".


Bruce Schneier is arching an eyebrow of his own and covering it, at
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/facebook-is-down.html .

Schneier's top-level coverage, in part:

  In addition to stranding billions of users, the Facebook outage also has
  stranded its employees from communicating with one another using their
  internal Facebook tools. That’s because Facebook’s email and tools are
  all managed in house and via the same domains that are now stranded.

  What I heard is that none of the employee keycards work, since they have
  to ping a now-unreachable server. So people can’t get into buildings and
  offices.

  And every third-party site that relies on “log in with Facebook” is
  stuck as well.


I think their headquarters street address (the former Sun Microsystems
campus) needs to be changed from One Facebook Way to One Single Point of
Failure Way.