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Facebook.com is up now, looks like the issue now is the billions of request that is DDoS on the DNS servers


Why? Do you think there's billions of widely-used recursive resolvers in the world? Each resolver only needs to contact the Facebook DNS servers once per hostname, the end-user requests are all served from cache.




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