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0 pointsdTal4y ago0 comments

Perhaps you're unaware that billions of devices attempting to resolve Facebook's unresolvable domains effectively DDOS-ed the DNS system? It most certainly did slow down big chunks of internet which otherwise had nothing to do with Facebook.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22709123/facebook-outage-...

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oarsinsync4y ago· 2 in thread

> Some applications may have seen increased load and suffered due to server resourcing constraints, caused by applications like the above failing to fail gracefully, and instead polling more aggressively.

I had Cloudflare's woes in mind when I wrote that.

TheCoelacanth4y ago

So your point is that it didn't slow down the entire Internet, only the parts of the Internet that use DNS (damn near all of them)?

oarsinsync4y ago

Based on cloudflare's own blog[0], 1% of queries went unanswered for about 10 mins, and were significantly delayed for a few hours. 5% of queries were delayed for a couple of hours. 95% of queries continued to be resolved as normal.

This is referring explicitly to users of 1.1.1.1, which is likely not the same infrastructure as domains hosted by cloudflare dns.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

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