Re: Facebook Outage
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Originally Posted by Hom3r
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From the Washington Post
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It’s also possible the outage was affecting other Internet services, Nash* said. When the services went down, so many users tried to load the sites that it caused a run on traffic on the Internet’s DNS infrastructure.
“The reason these failures are so crazy is because there’s so much interconnectiveness of the Internet we rely on,” Nash said.
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* Courtney Nash, senior research analyst at security company Verica.
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