[129968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Facebook Engineering on today's outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Sep 23 22:17:27 2010
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: outages@outages.org, nanog@nanog.org
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http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-details-on-todays-outage/431441338919
Apparently, our surmise about Akamai notwithstanding, the problem was actually
internal to their app-specific caching facilities, which went into Sorcerer's
Apprentice mode, and they had to kill them all and let ghod sort them out.
More if I get it; hope that posting's public.
Cheers,
-- jra
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