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With routing it's even worse than that. If they had no out-of-band method to connect to these routers and they botched the routing config then they had no way to route any traffic to them at all. At least with DNS you can still connect to the IPs.

I would find it a bit surprising if Facebook didn't have OOB access to their data centers, however.

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I'm sure they got stuck in a security loop. To get access OOB passwords or IP address, they needed to get into a password vault that is under facebook AN.

Next time FB save you passwords in OneDrive and Google Drive as a backup LOL. facebook-oob-password@gmail.com

Security policies are a pain in cases like this...

Laptop + mobile tethering + serial cable to the router + teamvewier for the remote admin to get the access solves problems like this in minutes.

Breaking a gajillion security policies by doing that is a different story though.

Don’t you think that losing thousands, millions, or billions of dollars is a pain?

Assuming you don’t need DNS to get authorization to enter the OOB access…

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