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0 pointsjcims4y ago0 comments

It was also down during the outage.

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advpetc4y ago· 2 in thread

That’s a bit sad

For a status page to be actually independent, it needs to have all it's requirements hosted on other infrastructure. fb.com authoritative DNS is the same as facebook.com, so it's going down when (FB) DNS goes down (and DNS is going down when BGP is broken, apparently).

It looks like the status page is hosted on CloudFront though, so it got part of the way. (Of course, the other question is if it was updatable / updated during the outage)

can16358p4y ago

Pardon me if it's a stupid question, but out of curiosity:

Is there any way to keep DNS up in case BGP goes down for any reason? Like a fallback nameserver hosted elsewhere/not affected by Facebook's ASs?

Is it technically impossible or did Facebook just assume something like yesterday would never happen and kept things simple instead of complicating things?

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