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by sarcasmatwork 2656 days ago
Bad configuration in a tunnel, IP, BGP etc.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/facebook-an...

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Yes, but those are all reversible relatively quickly. They aren't something that I would think ought to take almost an entire day to resolve.
The side-effects of such a thing might not be as easily reversible.

I've had to sit around waiting a couple hours for a Percona database cluster to re-sync after a major networking whoops, and it only had a few hundred gigabytes of data.