Facebook outage

[Aloha_Shooter]

Somebody posted something that didn't sit well with the military industrial complex. So they shut it down. I wonder what the information was? COVID? UFO? China? 25th Amendment?

Funny I tracked VP Harris on AF2 this weekend. She went to Palm Springs CA.


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kam...a-trip-reports

That's part of her border investigation, right?

[BushMasterBoy]

In the meantime, the spotlight in Congress right now, is Facebook! Of course it is just a coincidence. You couldn't time it any better!

https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-w...ocial-network/

[theGinsue]

Not a bad description.

The best way to describe a high level DNS attack is by going back to the 90's. You want to call a store on the other side of town, but the government has gathered and burned all the phone books. The the phone system still works, the stores # still works, but you'll never be able to call anybody unless you have their phone number memorized. Knowing their name won't help at all.

In an alternate attack, someone has reprinted all the phone books and everybody's real phone number has been removed, and replaced with a fake one. You look up a number in the phone book and call anyone, it goes to either a sex hotline that automatically bills your account, or a Nigerian scammer, every time, even when your kids try to call mawmaw if they don't have her number memorized.

The internet also runs entirely on an equivalent of phone numbers. (IP address). They all look similar to this: 208.157.101.211. Many have seen it before as 192.168.1.1 <--- the most common address of your router/gateway.

DNS is simply the phone book. It is sort of a pyramid hierarchy that shares information from higher-level servers, so there are certain servers, that if successfully attacked, could cascade changes down into a large number of other servers.

Nobody memorizes IP addresses for their favorite websites, most websites break if you try to browse directly by IP anyway (bad programming).

DNS is also one of many ways that a government can, theoretically, control the internet, which may be it's biggest weakness of all.

Through the years I've had to explain DNS to many people, up to and including intermediate level Sys Admins (I know; right?!).

This has got to be the BEST explanation of DNS I've ever come across.

[Gman]

I found this last night and figured I'd share it here: Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet