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Facebook was down for five hours last week. What happened and what do DNS and BGP have to do with it?
Facebook's explanation: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
Support these videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beneater or https://eater.net/support for other ways to support.
0:00 DNS
7:13 Caching DNS
10:34 Hop-by-hop routing
14:07 Default-free routing
18:28 Peering
19:50 BGP
26:08 The outage
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Aleksey Smolenchuk, Anders Carlsson, Andrew C. Young, Anson VanDoren, Anthanasius, anula, Armin Brauns, Ben, Ben Cochran, Ben Kamens, Ben Williams, Benny Olsson, Bill Cooksey, Binh Tran, Bouke Groenescheij, Bradley Pirtle, Bradley Stach, Bryan Brickman, Burt Humburg, Christopher Blackmon, Dale Andrew Darling, Daniel Jeppsson, Daniel Pink, Daniel Tang, Dave Burley, Dave Walter, David Clark, David Cox, David Dawkins, David House, David Sastre Medina, David Turner, David Worsham, Dean Bevan, Dean Winger, Dilip Gowda, Dissy, dko, Dmitry Guyvoronsky, Duan Delebdi, Dzevad Trumic, Emilio Mendoza, Eric Dynowski, Erik Broeders, Eugene Bulkin, Evan Thayer, Eveli Lszl, fisksvett, fxshlein, George Miroshnykov, Harry McDow, hotwire33, Ingo Eble, Ivan Sorokin, James Capuder, james schaefer, Jared Dziedzic, Jason DeStefano, Jason Dew, JavaXP, Jaxon Ketterman, Jay Binks, Jayne Gabriele, Jeremy, Jeremy Cole, Jesse Miller, Jim Kelly, Jim Knowler, Jim Van Meggelen, Joe Beda, Joe Pregracke, Joel Miller, John Fenwick, John Hamberger jn., John Meade, Jon Dugan, Jonn Miller, Joseph Portaro, Joshua King, Juris Brigmanis, Kai Wells, Kefen, Kenneth Christensen, Kitick, Koreo, Lambda GPU Workstations, Larry, Lszl Bcsi, Lucky Resistor, Lukasz Pacholik, Marcos Fujisawa, Marcus Classon, Mark Day, Marko Clemente, Martin Noble, Martin Roth, Mats Fredriksson, Matt Krueger, Matthus Pawelczyk, Matthew Duphily, Max Gawletta, Maxim Hansen, melvin2001, Michael Tedder, Michael Timbrook, Michael Weitman, Miguel Ros, mikebad, Mikel Lindsaar, Miles Macchiaroli, Muqeet Mujahid, My Yiddishe Mama, Nicholas Counts, Nicholas Moresco, Nick Chapman, Not Yet Wise, rn Arnarson, Paul Pluzhnikov, Paul Randal, Pete Dietl, Phil Dennis, Philip Hofstetter, PixelSergey, Porus, ProgrammerDor, Randal Masutani, Randy True, raoulvp, Renaldas Zioma, Ric King, Richard Butler-Malone, Richard Ertel, Rick Hennigan, Robert Comyn, Robert Diaz, Robey Pointer, H b, Scott Holmes, Sean Patrick OBrien, Sergey Kruk, solderspot, SonOfSofaman, Stefan Nesinger, Stefanus Du Toit, Stephen Kovalcik, Stephen Riley, Stephen Smithstone, Steve Jones, Tayler Porter, TheWebMachine, Thomas Bruggink, Thomas Eriksen, Tim Walkowski, Tom, Tom Yedwab, Tommaso Palmieri, Tyler Latham, Vincent Bernat, Walter Montalvo, Warren Miller, William, Wim Coekaerts, Wraithan McCarroll, xisente, Yee Lam Wan
Facebook was down for five hours last week. What happened and what do DNS and BGP have to do with it?
Facebook's explanation: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
Support these videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beneater or https://eater.net/support for other ways to support.
0:00 DNS
7:13 Caching DNS
10:34 Hop-by-hop routing
14:07 Default-free routing
18:28 Peering
19:50 BGP
26:08 The outage
------------------
Social media:
Website: https://www.eater.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ben_eater
Patreon: https://patreon.com/beneater
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/beneater
Special thanks to these supporters for making this video possible:
Aleksey Smolenchuk, Anders Carlsson, Andrew C. Young, Anson VanDoren, Anthanasius, anula, Armin Brauns, Ben, Ben Cochran, Ben Kamens, Ben Williams, Benny Olsson, Bill Cooksey, Binh Tran, Bouke Groenescheij, Bradley Pirtle, Bradley Stach, Bryan Brickman, Burt Humburg, Christopher Blackmon, Dale Andrew Darling, Daniel Jeppsson, Daniel Pink, Daniel Tang, Dave Burley, Dave Walter, David Clark, David Cox, David Dawkins, David House, David Sastre Medina, David Turner, David Worsham, Dean Bevan, Dean Winger, Dilip Gowda, Dissy, dko, Dmitry Guyvoronsky, Duan Delebdi, Dzevad Trumic, Emilio Mendoza, Eric Dynowski, Erik Broeders, Eugene Bulkin, Evan Thayer, Eveli Lszl, fisksvett, fxshlein, George Miroshnykov, Harry McDow, hotwire33, Ingo Eble, Ivan Sorokin, James Capuder, james schaefer, Jared Dziedzic, Jason DeStefano, Jason Dew, JavaXP, Jaxon Ketterman, Jay Binks, Jayne Gabriele, Jeremy, Jeremy Cole, Jesse Miller, Jim Kelly, Jim Knowler, Jim Van Meggelen, Joe Beda, Joe Pregracke, Joel Miller, John Fenwick, John Hamberger jn., John Meade, Jon Dugan, Jonn Miller, Joseph Portaro, Joshua King, Juris Brigmanis, Kai Wells, Kefen, Kenneth Christensen, Kitick, Koreo, Lambda GPU Workstations, Larry, Lszl Bcsi, Lucky Resistor, Lukasz Pacholik, Marcos Fujisawa, Marcus Classon, Mark Day, Marko Clemente, Martin Noble, Martin Roth, Mats Fredriksson, Matt Krueger, Matthus Pawelczyk, Matthew Duphily, Max Gawletta, Maxim Hansen, melvin2001, Michael Tedder, Michael Timbrook, Michael Weitman, Miguel Ros, mikebad, Mikel Lindsaar, Miles Macchiaroli, Muqeet Mujahid, My Yiddishe Mama, Nicholas Counts, Nicholas Moresco, Nick Chapman, Not Yet Wise, rn Arnarson, Paul Pluzhnikov, Paul Randal, Pete Dietl, Phil Dennis, Philip Hofstetter, PixelSergey, Porus, ProgrammerDor, Randal Masutani, Randy True, raoulvp, Renaldas Zioma, Ric King, Richard Butler-Malone, Richard Ertel, Rick Hennigan, Robert Comyn, Robert Diaz, Robey Pointer, H b, Scott Holmes, Sean Patrick OBrien, Sergey Kruk, solderspot, SonOfSofaman, Stefan Nesinger, Stefanus Du Toit, Stephen Kovalcik, Stephen Riley, Stephen Smithstone, Steve Jones, Tayler Porter, TheWebMachine, Thomas Bruggink, Thomas Eriksen, Tim Walkowski, Tom, Tom Yedwab, Tommaso Palmieri, Tyler Latham, Vincent Bernat, Walter Montalvo, Warren Miller, William, Wim Coekaerts, Wraithan McCarroll, xisente, Yee Lam Wan