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Re: operations contact @ facebook?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Billon)
Mon Oct 5 11:22:01 2009

Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:18:21 +0200
From: Benjamin Billon <bbillon-ml@splio.fr>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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I guess the facebook app allows any FB user to check availability of 
domain names or to request Gandi's whois database.

 From what I saw, FB people do not check every applications neither 
before or after publication.
And that could create some issues out there.

Patrick W. Gilmore a écrit :
> On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote:
>
>> Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by
>> anychance?  Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application
>> that we were neither aware of nor condoned.
>
> Clearly I do not have all the information, so please forgive me for 
> being confused.  But since when do I[*] have to ask you before I put 
> an application on my server?  If FB put an application on your server, 
> that seems like something you should have known up front.
>


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