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Re: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Sep 23 16:53:24 2010

From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1009231555410.5148@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:20:50 -0400
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
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>> On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:40 59PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
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>>> Over on the outages list there is a lot of discussion... I believe
>>> everyone is effected - we are peered with them in several locations =
and
>>> cannot reach them.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/22/facebook-goes-down-for-some-users/
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> That's about yesterday's outage...but it has a helpful link to =
Facebook's twitter, where they apparently just posted[1]
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>  We've fixed the issue with a third-party networking provider, and =
anyone
>  impacted should be able to access Facebook normally.
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> yet facebook.com is still largely busted.  The main page took quite a =
while, but did eventually load.  Clicking links on it yields:
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> Service Unavailable - DNS failure
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> The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try
> again later.
> Reference #11.e321d0d1.1285271763.14f5425
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> I think they're still dealing with some issues.
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> [1] I don't use twitter, and though it says that was posted "less than =
20 seconds ago via HootSuite", I call BS...because minutes later, it =
still says "less than 20 seconds ago..."  So for all I know, that could =
be their tweet from yesterday.

If you are talking about the direct twitter GUI, it doesn't change the =
estimated delay time  until you do something to refresh it (refresh the =
page, send new content, etc.).

Regards
Marshall


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