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  • lgeek34 minutes ago
    I hate it when I can&#x27;t get in touch with the right engineers at a large company. This (especially the highly targeted ad mentioned on the page) is a very creative way to try to solve that problem.<p>Not associated with Meta, but this piqued my interest. That being said, I found some parts confusing and hard to follow. For example what does URPF (Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding) in the title of this submission have to do with the contents?<p>And is the packet loss supposedly happening at specific times only? It&#x27;s not mentioned anywhere, but one screenshot highlights the time. I couldn&#x27;t reproduce the packet loss using any of the looking glasses and dest IP addresses in the screenshots. At this point, if this was a report I had received about one of my services, I would have probably bumped down the priority to low and asked for a reproducible test, because in my experience even issues that affect a single path in an ECMP group are not <i>this</i> hard to reproduce. I think it&#x27;s way more important to give the engineer who will process the report an easy way to check that there is indeed a problem than to start to teach how traceroute works.<p>TBF, there does seem to be an issue somewhere, because sticking 129.134.80.234, one of the Meta IP addresses from a screenshot, on ping.pe does definitely show significant packet loss from more locations than you&#x27;d expect to see for an address with no connectivity issues.
  • sshrajesh39 minutes ago
    Does this mean meta has a bad interface&#x2F;optics in their internal network?
  • mrngm2 hours ago
    Interesting problem, perhaps you could replicate results using RIPE Atlas to see geographical impact as well?