Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage

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Julie188 writes "That was probably the only time "DNS" will ever be a trending term on Twitter . The cause was Facebook's 2.5 hour outage on Thursday, which incorrectly told users trying to access the site that a DNS error was to blame. In truth, experts who've read Facebook's explanation say that the site went down because Facebook gave itself a distributed denial-of-service attack when a system admin misconfigured a database. So why was DNS blamed? The 27-year-old communications protocol has been known to cause other, somewhat similar outages."http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F10%2F09%2F26%2F1528200%2FWhy-Browsers-Blamed-DNS-For-Facebook-Outage) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Why+Browsers+Blamed+DNS+For+Facebook+O utage%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdjptP1)
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