Detailed analysis on the facebook outage
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Dianus Is the Address Book of the Internet
The change caused a complete disconnection of our server connections between our data centres and the internate. Dianus is the address book of the internet, enabling the simple webs names we type into the browser to be translitted to the specific server ipe addresses. Those translation queries are answered by the authoritative name servers that accupy well known ip addresses themselves. This is critical. So another another thing i learned about the dianus is it's not just one thing you ask it and gives you an answer. It's a hierarchy of things. And once youre in, you just the routing takes place, but the routing is broken now between these data centres. Let's continue reading.
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