{"id":66606,"date":"2012-12-11T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=66606"},"modified":"2012-12-11T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:13:36","slug":"facebook-sees-temporary-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/66606-facebook-sees-temporary-glitch.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook sees temporary glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook says some users were briefly unable to access the site because of a technical glitch.<\/p>\n<p>The social networking site with over 1 billion users worldwide said on Monday it made a change to its domain name system setup. The change resulted in some users temporarily not being able to reach the site.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was detected and the site is now fully back.<\/p>\n<p>A DNS acts like a phone book for the Internet, translating a domain name like facebook.com into a number that points to a specific host computer.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did not say how many users were affected or for how long. Some technology blogs say the problems lasted about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/66026-facebook-to-buy-whatsapp.html\"><strong>Facebook to buy Whatsapp?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/65822-facebook-bug-re-adds-users-to-groups.html\"><strong>Facebook bug re-adds users to groups<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/65600-internet-debate-to-dominate-global-summit.html\"><strong>Internet debate to dominate global summit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technical glitch kept a number of users out of Facebook on Monday, 10 December 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":48486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,17394],"class_list":["post-66606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66632,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions\/66632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}