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Facebook is Down, Here are Alternate Macon Media Links

Updates will be posted here in reverse chronological order: 

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• Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet [Cloudflare]

• Update about the October 4th outage [Facebook]

**3:18pm**

Brian Krebs has an article on what we know about the Facebook, Instagram, and What's App outages at Krebs on Security.

Here is a short excerpt with the meat of the reason for those who can't follow the above link to the article:

Doug Madory is director of internet analysis at Kentik, a San Francisco-based network monitoring company. Madory said at approximately 11:39 a.m. ET today (15:39 UTC), someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records. BGP is a mechanism by which Internet service providers of the world share information about which providers are responsible for routing Internet traffic to which specific groups of Internet addresses.

In simpler terms, sometime this morning Facebook took away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its various online properties. As a result, when one types Facebook.com into a web browser, the browser has no idea where to find Facebook.com, and so returns an error page.

In addition to stranding billions of users, the Facebook outage also has stranded its employees from communicating with one another using their internal Facebook tools. That’s because Facebook’s email and tools are all managed in house and via the same domains that are now stranded.

“Not only are Facebook’s services and apps down for the public, its internal tools and communications platforms, including Workplace, are out as well,” New York Times tech reporter Ryan Mac tweeted. “No one can do any work. Several people I’ve talked to said this is the equivalent of a ‘snow day’ at the company.”

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**3:07pm**

Netblocks has a good article about the outage, which has been ongoing for almost three and a half hours at this point.

"Why are Facebook’s services down?

Network metrics indicate a loss of connectivity on autonomous network AS32934. The most visible impact of this is the loss of authoritative DNS resolvers, which prevents the company’s public services from functioning. It is likely that non-public facing Facebook services have been similarly impacted.

The root cause of the incident in not yet fully established, although there are indications that BGP routes have been withdrawn or hijacked, causing a knock-on impact to DNS and other servers needed to resolve the services.

Facebook has experienced international outages previously, including major partial outage incidents on 14 April 2019 and 14 March 2019. However, the current incident is the most severe Facebook outage on record."

Read the rest at Netblocks

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 **2:52pm** Here is a tweet from Jared Naud: 

"My suspicion with the Facebook outage is that a BGP announcement got borked, took out core / internal services that then cascaded. This would make sense since their authoritative DNS servers are not reachable. FB infra team says they are trying to get to DC routers for updates." 

 Read the tweet and see a screenshot of a message he monitored from a team working the problem at https://twitter.com/JaredNaude/status/1445084049513590787/photo/1

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 **1:30pm** Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security says the DBS Records that tell systems how to find Facebbok and Instagram were withdrawn from the global routing tables. Here is the tweet:

Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find https://t.co/qHzVq2Mr4E or https://t.co/JoIPxXI9GI got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works & all your internal FB-based tools fail?

— briankrebs (@briankrebs) October 4, 2021

See https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1445077617426718725 to read the thread. 

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And one more tweet from Brian:

To be more precise (and Geek Factor 5) the BGP routes serving Facebook's authoritative DNS were withdrawn, rendering all Facebook domains inaccessible. That's per @DougMadory , who knows a few things about BGP/DNS.

— briankrebs (@briankrebs) October 4, 2021

For those wondering, it's not just you. Facebook is down.

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Published at 12:03pm on Monday, October 4, 2021 

Author: Bobby Coggins

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Daily Weather Briefing for Thursday, March 14, 2019

Alternatives During Facebook Outages and Interruptions

For those of you who depend solely on Facebook for access to Macon Media content, you may wish to bookmark the following URLs for future reference when Facebook has another outage like yesterday:

Twitter

WNCscan [LINK] Public Safety and Weather Updates
Macon Media [LINK] Local and Regional News

Web

Macon Media [LINK] Temporary blog until a more permanent website is finished

Information on the outage [LINK]

Pi Day

Today is Pi Day. Learn more at https://www.piday.org

Outlook

High pressure will move off the east coast tonight. A cold front approaching from the west on Thursday should reach the mountains Thursday night and cross the region on Friday. Dry high pressure will then follow for the weekend. A weak cold front will arrive from the northwest early next week.



THREE DAY GFS FORECAST
This animated image shows a forecast of precipitation, air pressure and thickness level (cold-air damming) for three days in six-hour increments.
Green, Yellow, and Red indicate rain. Orange and Purple Indicate Freezing Rain or other freezing precipitation. Blue indicates snow.

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Weather Hazards

Hazardous weather is not expected today.

A moist cold front will cross the region Thursday into Friday. This front will bring a good amount of rainfall and localized flooding of streams due to runoff associated with rather high levels of soil moisture will be possible.

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WEATHER FORECAST MAPS

Forecast maps for 7 am, 1 pm, and 7 pm.
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FRANKLIN AREA FORECAST

Today

A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 9am. Mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 7 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 10pm. Patchy fog after 9pm. Lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.

Friday

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then showers likely. High near 65. Winds out of the southwest 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. Winds out of the northwest around 8 mph.

Saturday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 55.

Saturday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 30.

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OTTO AREA FORECAST

Today

A 50 percent chance of rain. Patchy fog between 9am and 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high in the mid-60s. Winds out of the southeast around 7 mph. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 10pm. Patchy fog. Low around 55. Winds out of the southeast around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Friday

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then showers likely. Highs near 65. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. Winds out of the northwest around 9 mph.

Saturday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 55.

Saturday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 30.

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HIGHLANDS PLATEAU FORECAST

Today

A chance of rain before 5pm, then showers likely after 5pm. Patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high in the mid-50s. Winds out of the south around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 10pm. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Friday

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then a chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with a low around freezing. Winds out of the northwest 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 45.

Saturday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 30.

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NANTAHALA AREA FORECAST


Today

A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 11am. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 60. Winds out of the south 5 to 10 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight

Showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 10pm. Patchy fog. Lows near the mid-50s. Winds out of the south around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Friday

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then showers likely. High near 60. Winds out of the southwest 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday Night

Partly cloudy, with a low around freezing. Winds out of the northwest around 10 mph.

Saturday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 45.

Saturday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 30.

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Macon County Almanac for March 14, 2019

Highest Temperature 85°F in Franklin in 1967
Lowest Temperature 4°F in Highlands in 1926
Greatest Rainfall 5.38 inches in Highlands in 1913
Greatest Snowfall 6.5 inches in Highlands in 1993


Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of March
Data available from 1873 to 2018

Highest Temperature 86°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-15-1967
Lowest Temperature -7°F in Highlands on 03-07-1899
Greatest Rainfall 6.43 inches in Highlands on 03-29-1898
Greatest Snowfall 25.5 inches at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 03-13-1993

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Published at 4:15 am on March 14, 2019

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