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RE: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Thu Sep 23 17:15:55 2010

From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@gci.com>
To: Jay Nugent <jjn@nuge.com>, Justin Horstman
	<justin.horstman@gorillanation.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:45:57 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.1009231554590.4725-100000@home.nuge.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Here in Alaska, we have fiber going from Anchorage down to Seattle - where =
we peer with Facebook via SIX. We also host localized content for akamai, w=
ho in turn caches data for facebook. Our requests to facebook.com (dns wise=
) are handled through the akamai cluster on our internal 10 gig link - whic=
h gives the error:
Service Unavailable - DNS failure
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again =
later.

Reference #11.1496a5d1.1285274423.4657e30a

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Nugent [mailto:jjn@nuge.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:59 AM
To: Justin Horstman
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

Greetings,

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Justin Horstman wrote:

> Via http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com
>=20
> It's not just you! http://facebook.com looks down from here.
>=20
> Also down from LA, qwest has been having issues today as well, not sure i=
f its related.

    About 45 minutes ago traceroutes died...

[jjn@K2 ~]$ traceroute www.facebook.com
traceroute to www.facebook.com (66.220.149.18), 30 hops max, 60 byte=20
packets
 1  DR-LVL3.nuge.com (216.144.208.1)  1.083 ms  1.695 ms  1.934 ms
 2  * * *
 3  166.90.244.19 (166.90.244.19)  31.257 ms  34.148 ms  37.801 ms
 4  ge-5-0-155.hsa1.Detroit1.Level3.net (63.211.20.93)  41.258 ms  43.576
 5  so-8-1.car1.Detroit1.Level3.net (4.69.140.118)  51.752 ms  54.577 ms
 6  ae-8-8.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.69.133.242)  76.007 ms  75.161 ms
 7  ae-5-5.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.140.194)  76.469 ms  48.544 ms
 8  ae-6-6.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net (4.69.148.145)  64.813 ms  63.952
 9  ae-5-5.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.143.221)  61.980 ms  63.616
10  ae-92-92.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.158)  74.941 ms  73.267=
=20
ms ae-72-72.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.150)  80.951 ms
11  ae-2-79.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.68.17.85)  74.694 ms=20
    ae-1-69.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.68.17.21)  108.301 ms=20
    ae-2-79.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.68.17.85)  80.238 ms
12  FACEBOOK-IN.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net (4.53.116.6)  110.998 ms =20
13  ae2.bb02.iad2.tfbnw.net (74.119.77.148)  89.248 ms  86.623 ms  85.374
14  ae11.bb02.sjc1.tfbnw.net (74.119.77.199)  114.421 ms  117.183 ms=20
15  ae1.dr01.snc5.tfbnw.net (74.119.77.182)  96.802 ms=20
    ae2.dr01.snc5.tfbnw.net (74.119.77.184)  99.674 ms=20
    ae1.dr02.snc5.tfbnw.net (74.119.77.190)  98.270 ms
16  po509.csw02b.snc5.tfbnw.net (74.119.78.28)  94.258 ms=20
    po509.csw02a.snc5.tfbnw.net (74.119.78.24)  94.511 ms=20
    po510.csw02b.snc5.tfbnw.net (74.119.78.26)  94.792 ms
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *



   The 10 minutes ago the Aikami frontend answered with this:

-----------------------------------------------
Service Unavailable - Zero size object
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again=
=20
later.

Reference #15.16ce33b8.1285271433.6b82b=20
-----------------------------------------------


   Looks like the FaceBook backend is still down.  We wait (and be more=20
productive in our *real* job)  :)


      --- Jay Nugent
          Nugent Telecommunications
          Ypsilanti, Michigan


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