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amachefe
on Oct 4, 2021
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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the in...
Facebook.com is up now, looks like the issue now is the billions of request that is DDoS on the DNS servers
tremon
on Oct 4, 2021
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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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