Is Facebook down?

http://www.facebook.com

by acron0 • 14 years ago

72 88 14 years ago

facebook.com

elemenohpee2• 14 years ago

Woah, downforeveryoneorjustme says: Huh? http://www.facebook.com doesn't look like a site on the interwho.

acron0• 14 years ago

Yep, I checked there too. Also getting:

Ping request could not find host www.facebook.com. Please check the name and try again.

elemenohpee2• 14 years ago

DNS issue? I can ping some of their IP addresses but not others.

selectnull• 14 years ago

Both gmail and facebook down within an hour or so? Something going on?

pyre• 14 years ago

Cyberattack! Don't panic! Everyone make your way to your nearest cyber-shelter! ;-)

Firehed• 14 years ago

Prepping for the end of the world next Friday ;)

NathanKP• 14 years ago

It is up for me in Austin, Texas. Maybe a localized DNS issue?

eric59• 14 years ago

"ping: cannot resolve www.facebook.com: Unknown host" from Seattle.

wronskian• 14 years ago

Down for me here (UK, broadband provider is Eclipse) - looks like a DNS problem. isup.me also fails to resolve it.

izietto• 14 years ago

Down here (Rome, Italy)

halayli3• 14 years ago

webmon.com (click on demo) shows it's been up from 4 locations with couple glitches in the past hour.

trendspotter4• 14 years ago

Now webmon shows erros for Facebook, see here:

https://webmon.com/#monitors/f/7

halayli3• 14 years ago

yep - just got an alert.

trendspotter4• 14 years ago

Webmon says: "19 errors in the past 14 minutes"

halayli3• 14 years ago

it seems it's a dns issue.

jrajav• 14 years ago

Up in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Yoni13• 14 years ago

Down here (Israel).

factorialboy• 14 years ago

Down for me: Amsterdam

extraio• 14 years ago

I'm in Sacramento, CA - It's down at my house, but not at my neighbor's house (we're both on Comcast).

wolfcat• 14 years ago

Strange, yes downforeveryoneorjustme says it is not a site, but I can refresh FB just fine.

BreadPaPa• 14 years ago

Down in Chicago

VicJ• 14 years ago

Down in UK

drixen• 14 years ago

Down in Belgium :(

chrisu_de• 14 years ago

The HN effect;) Down for me in germany.

kelleolsen• 14 years ago

Down in Spain

legosteentje3• 14 years ago

Down from Amsterdam ( IX5 ) And France ( OVH ), Track live tweets here http://facebook.twitterconsole.com

corford2• 14 years ago

Don't know if it's yours, but well done on twitterconsole.com - very nice!

snomad• 14 years ago

Down for me in Sacramento.

jamesjporter• 14 years ago

Down for me in Chicago . . . its been a hell of a day for big web companies!

phatbyte• 14 years ago

Down in Portugal as well

corford2• 14 years ago

Down here in France. Geo dns issue?

I just tried using: http://www.analogx.com/cgi-bin/cgidig.exe?DNS=208.67.222.222... and that's claiming everything is fine (i.e. www.facebook.com exists and is a CNAME for star.facebook.com)

chuhnk2• 14 years ago

So www.facebook.com is not resolving but facebook.com does. Someone pushed a bad dns update?

crypteasy• 14 years ago

Down here in Rochester, New York. However I'm still able to have a conversation through the mobile Facebook Messenger app.

conradfr• 14 years ago

At home I got nothing.

On my server I get the layout but no content.

It works fine for a friend on the same ISP as me.

(France)

zorkin• 14 years ago

Down in London

trendspotter4• 14 years ago

Facebook is still down here in Germany.

pdknsk• 14 years ago

If it's down for you, try these IPs, to check whether is a DNS problem.

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	69.171.229.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	173.252.100.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	173.252.101.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	66.220.152.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	66.220.158.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	69.171.224.32

chuhnk2• 14 years ago

facebook.com redirects to www.facebook.com which in turn does not resolve.

Yoni13• 14 years ago

You can add those IPs as "www.facebook.com" in your hosts file and then the site becomes accessible.

Yoni13• 14 years ago

Yup, that worked. However it's pretty useless as nobody else is online :)

iddqd• 14 years ago

Querying Facebook's DNS servers directly shows something is definitely wrong:

  $ dig +short @b.ns.facebook.com www.facebook.com
  star.facebook.com.
  $ dig +short @b.ns.facebook.com star.facebook.com
  $

trendspotter4• 14 years ago

Doesn't work for me. Facebook still not loading in Germany.

dieds• 14 years ago

Works when adding these to hosts in the Netherlands. Pretty funny, almost everyone offline :O

thomasbk• 14 years ago

It's back up for me in the Netherlands after doing ipconfig /flushdns in console, fwiw.

revskill• 14 years ago

Down here in Vietnam, Asia

joecurry• 14 years ago

Up in Auburn, AL - VPN'd through Montvale, NJ though

TeMPOraL• 14 years ago

Down in Kraków, Poland.

niico• 14 years ago

Not in Argentina.

jayare0125• 14 years ago

down for me in new jersey

inconditus• 14 years ago

Works fine in San Diego, California, but images aren't showing up.

replayzero• 14 years ago

Down in Kent, UK

diedsj• 14 years ago

wth, how does the site go down EVERYWHERE???

ylem• 14 years ago

down in Mumbai

gzanitti• 14 years ago

Down in Argentina.

antoniopratas• 14 years ago

down in Portugal.

laander• 14 years ago

A little investigation:

Anon_Online notices of the event, OP probably high/drunk https://twitter.com/Anon_Online/status/278269562422697987

Odd-looking whois of facebook.com (notice the xxx domains and last update timestamp) http://pastebin.com/K4gAK3gi

Hmm

legosteentje3• 14 years ago

This looks like a DNS Problem, can't be anon.

aes256• 14 years ago

1) Anonymous are very unlikely to have anything to do with this;

2) There's nothing untoward about that whois report; you need to put the domain in speech marks to query the exact domain

zackkitzmiller• 14 years ago

Those DNS records are legit. the domains aren't facebook.com, facebook.com is at the beginning. Do a whois for anyone, and you'll get similar results.

Edit, this is the google.com whois http://scrp.at/de0b2ad78907145d389c19b5cd61dc7b4d06e4e7

lor11• 14 years ago

wont work for me ireland, so i tried americanproxy.org home page and log in option came up but no homepage after i put my password in, still worked tho after hiding my ip address!

paganel• 14 years ago

Down for me too in Romania/Bucharest.

legosteentje3• 14 years ago

Latest WHOIS, could be my cache.

http://pastebin.com/sEHtBTwp

tlwaddington• 14 years ago

The beta site (http://beta.facebook.com) hasn't been affected.

mhielscher• 14 years ago

Huh. As of 15 minutes ago, I was (successfully) pulling data from http://graph.facebook.com.

robbie7• 14 years ago

Guys, just go to https://beta.facebook.com/ and it works.

FearMeForIAmDan2• 14 years ago

Until you try to log in...

jcmoscon2• 14 years ago

You are right!

yudhi• 14 years ago

down in (Jogjakarta) Indonesia

dag11• 14 years ago

Down for me too. Philadelphia.

harrychenca• 14 years ago

it's back up

geverett• 14 years ago

still down for me in Berkeley CA

Acen• 14 years ago

Try flushing your DNS. Windows: CMD -> ipconfig /flushdns

Still down in New Zealand, mind you.

joey_muller• 14 years ago

Not only was the site down for me in San Francisco but the Likes count buttons on several blogs were not loading. Can't the like button at least be cached?

grumps• 14 years ago

Down in DC!

jcmoscon2• 14 years ago

I just checked and Facebook is dead here in NY.

FearMeForIAmDan2• 14 years ago

It seems like a SERVER has been taken down. Due to the large differences in location, it seems like a server(s) that service(s) multiple locations has/have been taken out. People are screaming Anon, but it could be a power outage and have the same effect.

Either way, get ready to change some passwords.

dawolf-• 14 years ago

...and that's why you don't use Facebook Like buttons and Boxes all over your site. because it looks broken and full of errors now. Also, I don't want to know what this outage is doing to all the "Log in with Facebook" buttons right now.

On a serious note: DNS issue.

The authoritative nameservers a.ns.facebook.com and b.ns.facebook.com seem to be "set up" like this a the moment:

*.facebook.com ->(cname) star.facebook.com -> no answer

facebook.com still resolves the correct (?) IPs, but www.facebook.com, developers.facebook.com, graph.facebook.com all starting to die as your DNS cache expires. That's why it still might work for some at the moment while it really is broken.

ssttoo• 14 years ago

You can load FB buttons and stuff without affecting your site at all, even if FB has DNS issues or is blocked by a firewall https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151176218703920

You load the JS SDK using the "fif" pattern. If it fails to load, none of the tags like <fb:like> etc get replaced by iframes, so no errors on the page. `DOMContentLoaded` and `onload` on your page fire as usual. It's as if the site doesn't even use FB widgets

beagle3• 14 years ago

Just be aware that doing that gives FB a chance to sniff cookies, referrer and other stuff on your own page.

<sarcasm>Of course, FB is completely trustworthy with any data you give them access to, so nothing wrong will ever happen.</sarcasm>

rb12345• 14 years ago

My cached results seem to have a cname of "star.c10r.facebook.com", which works:

    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name:    star.c10r.facebook.com
    Addresses:  2a03:2880:10:8f01:face:b00c:0:1
          31.13.72.23
    Aliases:  www.facebook.com

craaash80• 14 years ago

Now it resolves 31.13.64.23 ... was it planned?

bluedevil• 14 years ago

you have to change your DNS nameservers. this works for me. primary: z.nic.de 194.246.96.1 Anycast (Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, Miami, Moscow, Sao Paulo) . secondary: google 8.8.4.4

frookichalors• 14 years ago

down in Nashville

CarlHoerberg• 14 years ago

OpenDNS still resolves the correct ip:s..

zackmore• 14 years ago

Always down in China.

spoko1001• 14 years ago

69.171.229.16

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