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Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by bl4k »

Well somebody has screwed it up on their end. Only the www record is not resolving, a lot of the others are, for eg:

http://developers.facebook.com/

  $ nslookup facebook.com ns1.facebook.com
  Server:	ns1.facebook.com
  Address:	204.74.66.132#53
  
  Name:	facebook.com
  Address: 69.63.189.11
  Name:	facebook.com
  Address: 69.63.181.12
  Name:	facebook.com
  Address: 69.63.189.16
  
  $ nslookup www.facebook.com ns1.facebook.com
  Server:	ns1.facebook.com
  Address:	204.74.66.132#53
  
  Non-authoritative answer:
  *** Can't find www.facebook.com: No answer
(YMMV based on local cache etc.)

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#32

Post by aresant »

byoung2 wrote: post #6
aresant wrote: post #4

It's hard to overstate the damage this is causing for merchants that prominently display FB like on their pages - lots of big ugly blank spaces / errors out there. Realize this is temporary but shows why if you install any external vendor tool as a part of your site make contingency plans that switch on errors.

Or people who rely on Facebook for shared login...that must be down as well.

Good point. We recently had a client set their "signup" to FB login by default and I cringed.

Great, simple services but the macro effect that this is going to have on commerce today is crazy.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#33

Post by justinbach »

byoung2 wrote: post #6
aresant wrote: post #4

It's hard to overstate the damage this is causing for merchants that prominently display FB like on their pages - lots of big ugly blank spaces / errors out there. Realize this is temporary but shows why if you install any external vendor tool as a part of your site make contingency plans that switch on errors.

Or people who rely on Facebook for shared login...that must be down as well.

You're telling me--of course this has to happen the day before client review of a major Facebook Connect site whose only authentication is via Facebook Accounts. We had discussed potentially having two types of accounts (Facebook- and email-based), but having two parallel authentication methods just seemed clunky. I guess this is the price we pay for trying to keep things simple...

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#39

Post by rryyan »

bl4k wrote: post #30
dansingerman wrote: post #19

As an aside I notice that 'Facebook' is not a trending topic on Twitter. Seems the term must be blacklisted in some way along with all the swears and other undesirable terms. Which seems a bit underhand by Twitter. Edit: I notice that 'Facebook isnt working' has appeared now. I've blogged about this issue here: http://blog.dansingerman.com/post/1174729229/twitter-mostly-... (if anyone cares)

during one of the twitter hacks the blacklist application was accessed and facebook was on the list (as was google and a bunch of other brand names)

I'm curious about this and Googling failed me, do you have a link?
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