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mapuc 10-04-21 02:50 PM

A DNS make you come to the right homepage like subsim.com/radioroom when you enter the name in your URL field. You could also enter subsims ip-adress(numbers) directly.

I could be wrong though.

Edit
Made search on how DNS works and found this

Quote:

DNS allows a domain name to be associated with an IP address. So instead of typing an IP address that consists of a large number of numbers, you can, for example, type Facebook.com in the browser, and then DNS will redirect you to the correct website.

However, it is apparently Facebook's DNS that is down, which is why the website cannot be accessed.

For example, Google has the IP address 172.217.16.67. Here, the DNS Servers ensure that when you enter Google, it is converted to 172.217.16.67.
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Markus

Jeff-Groves 10-04-21 02:54 PM

You are partially correct. But those records are online and can be destroyed!
:03:
DOS attacks are one thing. DNS attacks are a whole different thing!
Given one has a system with enough CPU power behind it, a totally new software doing it, and the bandwidth?

Good luck stopping it!

Then add in the fact he is willing to go to prison after he attacks China?
How soon you think he would be stopped?

Here's FB's IP address.
69.171.228.70

mapuc 10-04-21 03:05 PM

Forgot this information about these DNS-server

Quote:

All these web addresses and their IP address are then posted to so-called Root Servers, so that no matter where in the world you are, you can access an internet page to use the website's IP address.

If this information does not reach these Root Servers due to a local crash on Facebook's Domain Name Service, then after some time they will be deleted on the Root Servers, which will mean that the website will crash.
Don't know what that mean in plain English.
Especially the last sentence.

Markus

Admiral8Q 10-04-21 04:52 PM

Remember, the internet was invented as a redundant computer network to prevent centralization and keep working even after multiple attacks. Centralizing like FB has proved how easy it is to take that server (servers) offline. I'm guessing the a.i. algorithms made it even easier.

Heh heh! :Kaleun_Cheers:

Anyways, time to go shopping then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeHdZZtr0xk


Eichhörnchen 10-04-21 04:55 PM

Facebook is back on

Notifications panel won't work, however: when you try to open a notification you first get "Query Error", then "Oops... something went wrong"

Also, posting isn't working either, so it may as well be down

Skybird 10-04-21 05:08 PM

The tecnical problems seem to have gone beyond FB, since other oparts of the internet have been reporte dform saroudn the globe to have broken down, internet providers saying websites in parts were not accessible, even regionally total blackouts, in germany as well , have been reported. Over here, all provider companies had/have been affected.



A cyberattack is seen as unlikely, since DNS servers, the likely cause of the problems, are too diverse in specs to knock them out simultaneously on such a scale.

mapuc 10-04-21 05:11 PM

It was a man made failure at FB which was the reason to this major breakdown. So it says in a Danish newspaper.

Markus

Admiral8Q 10-04-21 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 2772557)
It was a man made failure at FB which was the reason to this major breakdown. So it says in a Danish newspaper.

Markus

You nay be right. Most want to blame an "attack". FB has been screwy for at least a month already. It's probably a overload failure of the a.i. algorithms.
Of course I wouldn't rule out an "attack", though if so it would be easy to push it over the edge, metaphorically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WJsp16CpY

Otto Harkaman 10-04-21 05:41 PM

a bet a squirrel got into the system causing havoc storing nuts

https://www.attic-solutions.com/wp-c...-nightmare.jpg

Skybird 10-04-21 05:47 PM

If so, a job well done. I know why I love squirrels so much.



A single compoany amassing so manby facets and market accesses, represents a fundamental lump risk, in multiple dimensions: material, financial, cultural, economical, legal, technical...


Too big. Way too big, like many others, too. These become a threat to the common good.

Arlo 10-04-21 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 2772571)
If so, a job well done. I know why I love squirrels so much.



A single compoany amassing so manby facets and market accesses, represents a fundamental lump risk, in multiple dimensions: material, financial, cultural, economical, legal, technical...


Too big. Way too big, like many others, too. These become a threat to the common good.

That's it. I'm reporting you to Mark Zuckerberg. :shucks:

Armistead 10-04-21 08:50 PM

I have FB and enjoy several historical and selling groups, but that's about it. I think I've amassed about 100 friends over 12 years and I tire of the political stuff they post. I'm conservative, but most my conservative friends are nuts politically. I usually get on and check when I brew a fresh pot of coffee every 3 days or so. I don't have any apps like What..ever app it is. I also lie about everything about me at least some, not that it probably helps much. I do think they listen through your phone tho, cuz I can just be talking to a friend about something and next thing I know I'm getting tons of ads related to the discussion. Also, my wife was out of town and in Messenger I cut up and told her to send me some boobs, which first got me pics of Biden and Harris, but I guess cutting up sent me hers. She then told me to pick up dog food and ..bam...dog food ads everywhere. If you ever see a set on dog food bags...now ya know.

Buddahaid 10-04-21 08:59 PM

What does Facecrook have to do with your phone? It's your phone service that is selling your name.

Reece 10-04-21 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddahaid (Post 2772590)
What does Facecrook have to do with your phone? It's your phone service that is selling your name.

Could also be he has a viral app on his phone that is monitoring, using speech recognition, certain words that promote the ads. :hmmm:

Catfish 10-05-21 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arlo (Post 2772575)
That's it. I'm reporting you to Mark Zuckerberg. :shucks:

You mean this nice guy who invented his first website to judge women by their looks and make this public to denigrate them? The one stealing your data and selling them to companies so they can screw you better? The one who creates algorhythms to follow and foretell your behaviour, and record it all for making more money? The one that let people spout all their hate and make racism and the far right wing socially "acceptable" again? The one who knows that hate and diversion draws customers to his site, so he promotes this actively (because companies then pay more for advertising)?

By all means, do that. And if you go there please carry a small device i give to you to hand over to him. Thanks man! :D

Jimbuna 10-05-21 05:37 AM

Whilst I use FB now and then I can honestly say I didn't miss it.

mapuc 10-05-21 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2772641)
Whilst I use FB now and then I can honestly say I didn't miss it.

Same here. When it comes to missing it.

I had access to our forum and this meant more to me, than not being able to access FB.

Could this have to do with the fact that I/we inside our self somehow knew FB would come back sooner or later ?

I visit FB on daily basis this to read and give a like to my Danish friends and to post some comment-I don't write my own bulletin.

A weird thought.
Wonder if there was people thinking on suicide, when they find out that FB was down-There are people who are very addictive to FB.

Markus

mapuc 10-05-21 12:26 PM

Found this article

Quote:

Facebook whistleblower will urge U.S. Senate to regulate company
https://www.reuters.com/technology/f...ny-2021-10-04/

Markus

Jimbuna 10-05-21 01:54 PM

Well no doubt many will be experiencing a sigh of relief.

Rockstar 10-05-21 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 2772715)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2772729)
Well no doubt many will be experiencing a sigh of relief.


Not everyone sees it as something good or a relief. Think about it, heck, just look at how many here fell for the Russiagate conspiracy theories which inundated the daily cable and mainstream media news cycles. They swallowed it all hook line and sinker without question. Not too long ago I was still reading things about how they’re gonna get Trump, low hanging fruit, anyday now, ticktock. Guess what, all those pages of posts all that bandwidth a waste. The whole Russiagate thing was sham, debunked, a lie, a conspiracy theory half of the voters fell for. Now its time to ‘regulate’ social media in the same manner I guess.

What’s most concerning is just under 2/3 of Democrats favor U.S. Government censorship of the internet in the name of fighting misinformation. Yet these same people were the ones who fell for believing in true q-anon fashion main stream media Russiagate conspiracies.

Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor

"Whistleblower" Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/dem...do-not-want-to


The social media giant hurts America and the world, this narrative maintains, by permitting misinformation to spread (presumably more so than cable outlets and mainstream newspapers do virtually every week); fostering body image neurosis in young girls through Instagram (presumably more so than fashion magazines, Hollywood and the music industry do with their glorification of young and perfectly-sculpted bodies); promoting polarizing political content in order to keep the citizenry enraged, balkanized and resentful and therefore more eager to stay engaged (presumably in contrast to corporate media outlets, which would never do such a thing); and, worst of all, by failing to sufficiently censor political content that contradicts liberal orthodoxies and diverges from decreed liberal Truth. On Tuesday, Haugen's star turn took her to Washington, where she spent the day testifying before the Senate about Facebook's dangerous refusal to censor even more content and ban even more users than they already do.

There is no doubt, at least to me, that Facebook and Google are both grave menaces. Through consolidation, mergers and purchases of any potential competitors, their power far exceeds what is compatible with a healthy democracy. A bipartisan consensus has emerged on the House Antitrust Committee that these two corporate giants — along with Amazon and Apple — are all classic monopolies in violation of long-standing but rarely enforced antitrust laws. Their control over multiple huge platforms that they purchased enables them to punish and even destroy competitors, as we saw when Apple, Google and Amazon united to remove Parler from the internet forty-eight hours after leading Democrats demanded that action, right as Parler became the most-downloaded app in the country, or as Google suppresses Rumble videos in its dominant search feature as punishment for competing with Google's YouTube platform. Facebook and Twitter both suppressed reporting on the authentic documents about Joe Biden's business activities reported by The New York Post just weeks before the 2020 election. These social media giants also united to effectively remove the sitting elected President of the United States from the internet, prompting grave warnings from leaders across the democratic world about how anti-democratic their consolidated censorship power has become.

But none of the swooning over this new Facebook heroine nor any of the other media assaults on Facebook have anything remotely to do with a concern over those genuine dangers. Congress has taken no steps to curb the influence of these Silicon Valley giants because Facebook and Google drown the establishment wings of both parties with enormous amounts of cash and pay well-connected lobbyists who are friends and former colleagues of key lawmakers to use their D.C. influence to block reform. With the exception of a few stalwarts, neither party's ruling wing really has any objection to this monopolistic power as long as it is exercised to advance their own interests.


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