Its not just a DNS issue. Sites are inaccessible via direct ip as well.

telegram is down now too

Hard to believe when Q predicted this 3 years ago TO THE DAY.

Allegedly employees couldn't get in because door card readers were also down.

NSA dat u?

Update: FB routes deleted from global routing tables.

Since I'm not emotionally dependent on any social media, it can stay down as far as I'm concerned.

I can still see IG posts from a few hours ago

ARP table doesn't mean anything here. ARP is Layer 2, how you get to your router. From there, IP routing takes over.

Update: DNS is not the cause, but FB's DNS server is a victim.

TL;DR, Their BGP AS "disappeared" from the Internet. This is extraordinarily rare, so rare that I've never seen it happen on a production network, unless it was a deliberate decision (like consolidating companies under a single AS).

For the normies, BGP routing is like how Verizon knows how to connect a call from your phone to your buddy's phone on AT&T's network. You know your buddy's phone number, but that call isn't going to get through. This is equivalent to Verizon not knowing AT&T even exists.

The BGP "issue" (I'm not saying failure because I don't think it failed) caused their DNS servers to become unreachable from the Internet, and since they run a very small DNS TTL, those IPv4 entries have aged out. What's interesting is that their IPv6 entries are still valid, but they're not native IPv6 end-to-end, so routing still breaks at IPv4-enabled segments.

There were no changes outside of the ordinary to their DNS in the last year. Also no routing changes, and I checked to see if there was a nexus between their networks and the DoD space that migrated out to Florida last year- there isn't. No planned outages scheduled, either.

While a route disappearing from BGP is common, an entire AS is not. BGP poisoning is a standard attack, but it doesn't make an AS "go away". This is more insidious.

My opinion, and not financial advice b/c I'm a retarded crayon eater, if this wasn't a US Government shutdown, it certainly is something in Russia's wheelhouse.. and Zuck pissed off Putin.

Can confirm. Correcting a DNS entry, even with many many security layers, can be done fairly quickly. Propagation has been less than 20 minutes or so for the last few years.

This is odd.

Be still my heart.

I should probably grab additional cash just in case more systems drop.

They basically did this:

https://files.catbox.moe/ew5w30.jpg

They automated their BGP peering and it went awry, completely locking out their datacenters, so people had to be sent in to manually configure the routers.

ARP maps MAC to IP. Layer 2 is out of the mix

Your instincts serve you well, OP. Who has ability to killswitch/ access to any domain, worldwide? Who really owns the internet? Who invented it? Why?

Now plug in Q drops.

Answer these any let the fog lift.