The crisis of stopping Facebook and WhatsApp raises the debate about the importance of decentralization
The headlines of the news crisis stopped Facebook The social media giant, and its associated sites, lost access to the Internet for more than five hours on the fourth of October, due to “Wrong configuration change“.
Lots of news sites، In addition to celebrities, they took advantage of the event to continue the discussion about the need and benefits of decentralization.
and disrupt all of Facebook And Instagram And Messenger And WhatsApp, which affected more than 3.5 billion user.
Where has moved the chief technology officer of Facebook، Mike Schroepfer to me Twitter He says they are having "networking issues".
According to the outage update, the root cause also affected many internal tools and systems.
The technical teams found that:
“Configuration changes to the core routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers, caused problems that cut that connection It has had a ripple effect on the way data centers are connected, leading to a halt in services.”
Apparently the problem is related to the domain name system dns (DNS), asked the American rapper and record producer Posta Rhymes Busta Rhymes His 3.8 million Twitter followers:
“Would this be the time to become facebook.eth instead of facebook.com?!“
It is considered ether original in Ethereum Name Service (TO US), which is a naming system based on blockchain It works as a set of smart contracts on Ethereum(ETH) blockchain.
The famous musician went on to question, by his basic understanding of Blockchain Technically speaking:
“Can't a social network like Facebook be built on Blockchain?
I ask a question in order to learn.”
hung purse MyCrypto that focus on Ethereum:
Posta asks better questions than 99% From cryptocurrency traders on the site Twitter“.
And the technology editor of the newspaper tweeted The Guardian Alex Hearn Alex Hern The problem with this last incident is that:
“Facebook manages everything via Facebook“.
This was evident from simply sending the company's update to the routing protocol, rather than having the easy fix option to send another update.
"When its servers were booted from the Internet, it was also turned off... the ability to send this follow-up message, the ability to log into the system sending the follow-up message..."
The Facebook suspension crisis raises global controversy
During a pause crisis Facebook Asma stopped DNS Facebook's solution, and it was not possible to reach the addresses IP their infrastructure, according to the company Cloud Flare Cloudflare of Internet Infrastructure and Website Security, saying:
“It was as if someone pulled cables from their data centers all at once, and disconnected them from the Internet.”
Basically, led system Facebook highly central to a succession of events.
In the comments, many have expressed their gratitude for the wish Posta Rhymes In getting to know the industry Blockchain Walmar-Merkzai, Windsor.
At the same time, quite a few users also expressed doubt that Facebook It will be willing to deal with anything close to decentralization, as some have said that the reasons behind the recent outage crisis, may be control and revenue.
he commented redditor Redditor saying:
“These were once separate services, but companies just like to focus on centralization to save money and increase efficiencies.”
Others have argued that Ethereum currently “Not fit for purpose”, but it may become suitable after moving to Ethereum 2.0.
In response to the question whether a pause crisis could occur in Facebook If it is decentralized and developed on Ethereum Some have argued that there is a difference between "central" And "spreader" Others said it was technically feasible, but the cost would be enormous.
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