I’m thinking it’s mostly likely the Facebook owned registrar is down because Facebook is down, rather than the other way around.
I think the security breach idea is interesting, but I’d be very curious where that intel came from. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Monday, October 04, 2021 3:27 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] facebook outage their registrar is down as well - registrasafe.com <http://registrasafe.com> , there were updates made for both the registrar and the FB owned domains around 9am central (14 something zulu), after which it all went dark Their ASN shows up in the world Many of their IPs hit facebook error pages I have my money on the registrar taking the hit if this was malicious I also bought Keyon shares, so theres that On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 2:19 PM <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Is this registrar idea merely speculation or do we have a source for that? I can’t reach their DNS servers. I do have routes to the networks their DNS servers are on, and tracert stops in one of their /16’s. Seems like their DNS is broken internally? This seems absurd, but I’m not sure it’s any less absurd than other theories. -Adam From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Monday, October 04, 2021 3:13 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] facebook outage that is insane. so the registrar being down or "going out of business" is likely the cause? who would have thunk... ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Jones <mailto:[email protected]> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] facebook outage the downdetector comments are awful it looks like 9am CST some DNS registrar updates were made. registrasafe.com <http://registrasafe.com> seems to have disappeared from the world. Not sure what happens if your registrar that you own disappears. ICANN isnt likely to just hand keys over, even for facebook, its not like theyre microsoft or anything On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:32 PM CBB - Jay Fuller <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: i heard office productivity spiked some 45% today..... ha ha ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck McCown via AF <mailto:[email protected]> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Chuck McCown <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] facebook outage Machinery Trader got taken down by ransomware too. Most likely a coincidence. Wouldn’t that be rich if FB got taken down by ransomware... With as many datacenters they have, this must be a CDN/router level attack, wouldn’t you think? From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 12:17 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] facebook outage at least my have my old reliable AFMUG.... ----- Original Message ----- From: CBB - Jay Fuller To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 1:13 PM Subject: [AFMUG] facebook outage anyone else feeling alone and isolated without facebook? I need my safe space (no, not myspace) back. babaahahah. _____ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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