As a new sysadmin, it brings me comfort that even sites like facebook go down sometimes :)
Facebook was down
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#82How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…
I get the same sentiment... who cares... apparently a lot of people if this story can attain over 100 upvotes within 15 minutes.
It will be interesting to read postmortem but as far as "is down" stories go, they should be just auto-deleted from HN
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#83down in papua new guinea (south pacific)
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#84any guesses why?
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#85Down from China ... nah it's not new
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#86Down in Philippines
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#87Apparently Facebook over IPv6 is working: https://www.v6.facebook.com % curl -I https://www.v6.facebook.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=7776000 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff P3P: CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p" Pragma: no-cache X-XSS-Protection: 0 Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2…
Not anymore. :)
Yep, IPv6 is down for me too.
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#88Yes, I can confirm that it is indeed down from here too (Wales, UK). That is a pretty big 'down'. Like and follow buttons affected too. Network error on the App.
lol at "down in Wales" making it a pretty big "down"
j/k ;)
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#89Apparently Facebook over IPv6 is working: https://www.v6.facebook.com % curl -I https://www.v6.facebook.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=7776000 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff P3P: CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p" Pragma: no-cache X-XSS-Protection: 0 Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2…
It isn't now, now, the link is redirecting to the same error page!
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#90Down from China, too
Make scene :)