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Monday, September 27, 2010

Don’t blame DNS for Facebook outage

Don’t believe everything you read in computer error messages. The Facebook outage last week had nothing to do with DNS and everything to do with a misconfigured database that flooded Facebook’s internal network with traffic.

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