FB seems to be down.

[George K]

@mark can you explain that to us mere mortals?

[Copper]

I'm scared

jk

[mark]

@george-k said in FB seems to be down.:

@mark can you explain that to us mere mortals?

ping is a test to see if you can reach the server. for the ping issued above the domain would not even resolve at the domain registrar. That is very interesting as it seemed that the facebook.com domain had been deleted. That's why I did a ping to Google.com first to see if my internet domain name servers (dns) were functioning properly.

The ip address of the facebook.com server at the dns now resolves to 157.240.26.35

tracert which is below shows the route that your request takes to reach the server.

It appears that facebook.com has been restored to functionality except everything still appears to be coming from caches. I think they are not quite out of the woods yet.

[mark]

FB is super slow. Actually not responding at all right now.

Something big happened here.

[mark]

[Copper]

I would guess that there was a big attack on Facebook, but this forum is very slow at the moment too.

And so are others

[jon-nyc]

[Catseye3]

Not me, pal. I never go to your rackety thing.

[George K]

@jon-nyc that's great.

[Mik]

And there may be some truth to it. I should not be at all surprised if it was intentional.

[Horace]

I wouldn't have known if it hadn't been mentioned here.

[LuFins Dad]

https://babylonbee.com/news/hackers-warn-that-if-demands-arent-met-they-will-reactivate-facebook

[Mik]

[George K]

@lufins-dad

[Mik]

[George K]