Facebook BGP 'removed' from internet. Coincidence?
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Yeah. Not to mention that there is never just one transit gateway in place, especially for a company like FB. They very likely had several interfaces in place with redundant fail-overs to lower capacity hardware.
An event like this, where ALL of their connections are down simultaneously isn't just a major event; it's a HUGE event. This kind of thing should NEVER happen.
I started out in '95 for tier 1 isp's, and I agree, this is huge.
I'm in the industry. I work with cloud architecture specifically and work with these transit links all the time. Never seen an outage anything like this FB one.
Back in the 90's when we had routing storms we regularly had 2-4 hour outages ( back when we had a whole 2 MB between UK and US!).
I worked out how I would take the internet down and it all focussed on BGP and peering points, but I've never seen it done (beyond the odd redirect to China).
This is definitely a milestone and a new chapter. It's definitely state level actors.