Facebook was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook was down

#141

Post by toephu2 » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:00 AM UTC

instagram and facebook down as of this posting

Re: Facebook was down

#142

Post by saraid216 » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:00 AM UTC

code_duck wrote: post #80

obituary_latte wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Restarting your modem is step 1 in troubleshooting internet connectivity problems when Facebook is down?

It wasn't stated that that was the first thing he tried. I've experienced router/modem issues where only certain sites were inaccessible until one or both pieces of equipment were restarted. I'd be interested in knowing exactly what happens to a router's software to make that happen.

I'd spitball a guess that it has to do with the firewall rules on the modem or router running themselves into a bad state. That would explain why a restart fixes it, since the state would be cleared.

Re: Facebook was down

#143

Post by phpfour » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:00 AM UTC

Down from Bangladesh !

Re: Facebook was down

#144

Post by together_us » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:00 AM UTC

munirusman wrote: post #65

gburt wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$7.87 billion in 2013 / 365 days / 24 hours / 60 minutes / 60 seconds is about $250 a second. Edit: using more up to date data: $3,300,000,000 in the 3rd quarter of 2014 / (365/4) / 24 / 60 / 60 = $418.58

$1.5M an hour!!! But considering this is not the peak time in North America, it's should be little less.

But here in India and the rest of Asia, people wake up to Facebook. You can't ignore that.

Re: Facebook was down

#145

Post by rxaxm » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:00 AM UTC

joshmn wrote: post #129

willidiots wrote: post #41

Let's all have a moment of contemplation & relaxation on behalf of those poor souls on-call...

Our Facebook, who art in Datacenter...

hallowed be thy threads

Re: Facebook was down

#146

Post by jorkro » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:01 AM UTC

code_duck wrote: post #80

obituary_latte wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Restarting your modem is step 1 in troubleshooting internet connectivity problems when Facebook is down?

It wasn't stated that that was the first thing he tried. I've experienced router/modem issues where only certain sites were inaccessible until one or both pieces of equipment were restarted. I'd be interested in knowing exactly what happens to a router's software to make that happen.

That can be caused by a variety of issues. From the top of my head, I would investigate broken DNS caches and incorrect MTU settings.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by Hexcles » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:01 AM UTC

Facebook did go down before, but not like this time. I tried to ping many IPs of Facebook, all even failed to reach. Can be a sign of DDoS.

Anyway, if that is true, people have to take it really seriously this time.

Re: Facebook was down

#148

Post by thangh9 » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:01 AM UTC

FYI https://twitter.com/hashtag/facebookdown?src=tren

Re: Facebook was down

#149

Post by fuzzywalrus » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:01 AM UTC

prostoalex wrote: post #104

MalcolmDiggs wrote: post #87

Quick, Google+ Engineers: take it down too! You don't want to fall behind.

Gmail is 502'ing for me.

Gmail seems to be in working order

Re: Facebook was down

#150

Post by jeffreyrogers » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 7:02 AM UTC

overworkedasian wrote: post #132

This doesnt look right: whois facebook.com @8.8.8.8 Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. FACEBOOK.COM.DISABLE.YOUR.TIMELINE.NOW.WITH.THE.ORIGINAL.TIMELINE-REMOVE.NET FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM FACEBOO…

It's been that way for a while now and happens with any large site. Try google.com for example and you'll see the same thing.