Why was Facebook down for five hours?
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Why it's on BrighterTube
Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via JoseDeFreitas/awesome-youtubers · 92% confidenceUses a real event to teach internet routing; technical and careful rather than sensational.
What you'll learn
How the 2021 Facebook outage happened: BGP, DNS and how a configuration change took Facebook off the internet.
Video by Ben Eater, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of Networking tutorial
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