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Re: [OM] Facebook Outage

Subject: Re: [OM] Facebook Outage
From: <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:17:17 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     According to downdetector.com, Facebook imploded three hours ago and shows 
no sign of recovery:

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook

>
>     This gets curiouser and curiouser.  While watching the servers that 
>I was connecting two, I was under the impression that the one with the 
>name "lga3" was at LaGuadia, New York.
>
>     It's not.
>
>     It's in Ireland.
>
>     So instead of connecting to Facebook by way of a server 400 miles 
>away in Los Angeles, I'm instead connecting to a server 8,000 miles away 
>in Ireland.
>
>     I sure hope none of these people get involved in the future manned 
>missions to Mars.  A lot of people will die.
>


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson


-----Original Message-----
>From: christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Aug 26, 2019 1:37 PM
>To: Olympus Discussion Group <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] Facebook Outage

>>
>>     I may have found the culprit in the recent difficulties with Facebook. 
>> There is a distinct difference between accessing it by dialup or wifi.  
>>19CL is the carrier for dialup access, and it appears that they are routing 
>>dialup, and perhaps all internet traffic eastward towards servers in Dallas, 
>>Shreveport, Atlanta, and further.  When using dialup I can only get a very 
>>small portion of Facebook pages.  One of those servers is also a host for 
>>the dreaded 1e100.net Google network.
>>
>>     When using wifi, which is probably carried by Cox, the routing is 
>>westward towards a server in Los Angeles.  There is no disruption in 
>>Facebook content when using wifi.  So, I have good reason to suspect that 
>>the problems with Facebook over the past two weeks have been primarily due 
>>to 19CL routing internet activity eastward to servers that have limited or 
>>no connectivity to servers on the West Coast.
>>
>
>
>Chris
>
>When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
>     - Hunter S. Thompson
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