Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, 2010 @03:44AM from the three-letters-bad dept.

Julie188 writes "That was probably the only time 'DNS' will ever be a trending term on Twitter. The cause was Facebook's 2.5 hour outage on Thursday, which incorrectly told users trying to access the site that a DNS error was to blame. In truth, experts who've read Facebook's explanation say the site went down because Facebook gave itself a distributed denial-of-service attack when a system admin misconfigured a database. So why was DNS blamed? The 27-year-old communications protocol has been known to cause other, somewhat similar outages."

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Re:I think it was DNS by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-26 04:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Well, then you're a fucking idiot, because even TFS states that people incorrectly thought it was DNS because of the browser message, which was wrong. You also have no business on this site, because anyone who knows anything about DNS could clearly see that all the relevant domains were resolvable.