IT pede here in networking, not nearly on the level of FB though...from what I can see from sources, this isn't an issue with the BGP being hijacked or rerouted like can happen sometimes. It looks like as you said, the records have been completely withdrawn. If that's the case, there's only a couple things I can think of that caused that to happen:
There is some sort of hellish attack specifically targeting FB that went on using a method that no one's aware of yet. If this is the case then shit is scary as hell as it means that someone has basically found a "kill switch" for large Internet services.
Someone super high up at FB went rogue and pulled the routing tables.
Someone with just-high-enough levels of access to their system pushed out an update that is literally the perfect storm of stupid that cascaded and took down their entire networks. If this is the case then FB has a gaping design hole bigger than the one in between a Vegas hooker's legs and should never be trusted for anything again.
Also IT pede: 100% concur. Pulling the records from the Root Servers could only be intentional, though. BGP has nothing to do with DNS. But I want it to be (2) and (4) together, please...
IT pede here in networking, not nearly on the level of FB though...from what I can see from sources, this isn't an issue with the BGP being hijacked or rerouted like can happen sometimes. It looks like as you said, the records have been completely withdrawn. If that's the case, there's only a couple things I can think of that caused that to happen:
There is some sort of hellish attack specifically targeting FB that went on using a method that no one's aware of yet. If this is the case then shit is scary as hell as it means that someone has basically found a "kill switch" for large Internet services.
Someone super high up at FB went rogue and pulled the routing tables.
Someone with just-high-enough levels of access to their system pushed out an update that is literally the perfect storm of stupid that cascaded and took down their entire networks. If this is the case then FB has a gaping design hole bigger than the one in between a Vegas hooker's legs and should never be trusted for anything again.
IS HAPPENING.
That's all I can think of.
Also IT pede: 100% concur. Pulling the records from the Root Servers could only be intentional, though. BGP has nothing to do with DNS. But I want it to be (2) and (4) together, please...
Do you think theyd do this preemptively to cover crimes?
Im talking back door pay to play pages on their site to CP. Putin called them out on this a few days ago.
Could be done intentionally to establish a record of failure on advance of communication blackout