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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. Included in the withdrawn prefixes were the IP addresses of Facebook’s authoritative DNS servers, rendering them unreachable. which is routed as 129.134.30.0/24 24 and 129.134.30.0/23.

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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

Perhaps you want to know if the traffic you are investigating is related to video streaming, voice or social media. Lots of applications use these ports today, including DNS lookups and email. NetFlow application monitoring: Use DNS logs. At most companies, there are multiple DNS servers to collect from and hundreds of routers.

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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

These malware families – including Ducktail, NodeStealer and newer malware posing as ChatGPT and other similar tools – targeted people through malicious browser extensions, ads, and various social media platforms with an aim to run unauthorized ads from compromised business accounts across the internet.

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Weekend Reads 071924

Rule 11

On the other hand, these same minimal overheads imply that DNS over UDP cannot perform prompt detection of packet loss and cannot efficiently defend itself against various approaches to tampering with the DNS, such as source address spoofing, payload alteration and third-party packet injection.

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Weekend Reads 092824

Rule 11

Being at the core of the Internet places the DNS under a lot of pressure. New forms of DNS abuse emerge each year, disputes over domain names persist, and all the while, the Internet just keeps getting bigger. The censorship war has hit a flashpoint.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture offering optimized traffic routing over multiple different media (broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE, etc.). DNS The Domain Name Service (DNS ) is the address book of the Internet.

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Resilience and Redundancy in Networking

Kentik

IP address abstraction and failover capabilities with DNS Domain Name System (DNS) is a system for mapping domain names to IP addresses. By using DNS, users can access a website or other service using a human-readable name without needing to remember the IP address.