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Comment by chronid

5 years ago

Note those are anycast addresses, my guess is the DNS server gives out addresses for FB names pointing your traffic to the POP the DNS server is part of.

If the POP is not able to connect to the rest of Facebook's network, the POP stops announcing itself as available and that DNS and part of the network goes away so your traffic can go somewhere else.

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