Facebook is down ?

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daveza

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Do we have a global Facebook outage ?

http://downrightnow.com/facebook


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It seems to be on google's DNS.

I had that problem all morning and after pinging and so on I changed my DNS from google's to the default and it worked fine after that.
 
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-is-down-in-europe/10080

Facebook is down in Europe. It’s not clear how widespread the issue is, but I have heard reports from users being unable to access the social network from Albania, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the U.K. There have also been whispers of Facebook not working in Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Ghana, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the UAE, though these have been harder to confirm.

If you’re elsewhere in the world and can’t access Facebook right now, please let me know. If you are in the above countries and can access Facebook, please let me know as well.

Some people in the listed countries can still access Facebook; it appears to depend on what Internet Service Provider (ISP) you are using. You may thus be able to access Facebook from a friend’s place. Try accessing it from your phone, as that also might work.

The root of the problem is likely a DNS issue, rather than a global routing or site availability problem. One user told me the company’s two announced servers (glb1.facebook.com and glb2.facebook.com) are reachable but not answering requests. Another said he used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to change his IP address to a U.S. one and Facebook started working.

It’s working just fine for me, but I’m located in Canada. At the time of writing, downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com says Facebook is working just fine: “It’s just you. http://facebook.com is up.”

Meanwhile, downrightnow.com/facebook says Facebook’s current status is “Likely Service Disruption.” You can see what I mean in the screenshot above.

I have contacted Facebook and will update you if I hear back.

Update at 11:45 PM PST: The list of countries is growing very quickly. Thank you to all sending me reports and commenting on this article!

Update at 12:00 AM PST: Some are saying that Facebook is starting to work again. If it’s not yet fixed for you, be patient.
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Might help explain things :)
 
Facebook isn't down, it's a DNS issue. Switch to OpenDNS servers if you want to access it.

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
 
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