The Internet blinked and Facebook disappeared. For nearly six hours in October 2021, Facebook’s apps vanished from the online world. In this issue, we unpack the anatomy of this severe outage to understand the deeper machinery powering the global Internet.

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The article explores the robustness and fragility of the Internet, discussing DNS resolution, the border gateway protocol (BGP), and the power of core protocols.

How the Internet Stays Connected?