Facebook was down

Apparently Facebook over IPv6 is working: <a href="https://www.v6.facebook.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v6.facebook.com</a><p><pre><code> % curl -I https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v6.facebook.com HTTP&#x2F;1.1 200 OK Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=7776000 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff P3P: CP=&quot;Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fb.me&#x2F;p3p&quot; Pragma: no-cache X-XSS-Protection: 0 Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Set-Cookie: reg_fb_gate=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.v6.facebook.com%2F; path=&#x2F;; domain=.facebook.com Set-Cookie: reg_fb_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.v6.facebook.com%2F; path=&#x2F;; domain=.facebook.com Content-Type: text&#x2F;html; charset=utf-8 X-FB-Debug: [REDACTED] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:03:22 GMT Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 48441 </code></pre> So I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s related to their IPv4 infrastructure. Say, a load balancer?

What&#x27;s the point of a status page if it goes down too?<p><a href="https://developers.facebook.com/status/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.facebook.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;</a>

Are their APIs and Sign in with Facebook, also down? That&#x27;s pretty messed up for all the sites that rely on their Sign in.

As a new sysadmin, it brings me comfort that even sites like facebook go down sometimes :)

This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they&#x27;re not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser?<p>The downtime will surely end and it&#x27;ll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interesting &#x27;accidental&#x27; social experiment. Honestly, I&#x27;m not that interested on what happened technically, but I&#x27;m interested what effect it had socially for the common man outside the techcrunch&#x2F;HN&#x2F;reddit&#x2F;tech bubble.<p>On-topic: does facebook have a consolidated status page?

A good time to test how fast your site loads when the FB JS can&#x27;t be accessed...

What if they accidentally deleted everything and don&#x27;t have a backup?

I&#x27;m from China. Facebook is down for me like ... always.

And it&#x27;s back up. Would be interesting to find out what happened.

The statement most news sites are reporting is:<p>“Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We&#x27;re sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused,”

Maybe they are trying out their new switches. <a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-switch-and-it-looks-a-lot-like-a-server/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;18&#x2F;facebook-has-built-its-own-swit...</a>

Has anyone noticed on the Error page now, copyright is 2013? (<a href="http://postimg.org/image/byry6bj9p/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;postimg.org&#x2F;image&#x2F;byry6bj9p&#x2F;</a>)

$2.5b revenue in Q12014. ~$321 revenue per second. A costly outage, no?

<a href="https://www.prod.facebook.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prod.facebook.com</a> still works. :)

Time for people to seriously reconsider using all those Facebook plugins and relying on Facebook for user sign in.

<a href="https://www.prod.facebook.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prod.facebook.com</a> works for me

Reposting this from my own &quot;Facebook is down&quot; thread because this one has more visibility:<p>pi@pi ~ $ curl -I <a href="http://facebook.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;facebook.com&#x2F;</a><p>HTTP&#x2F;1.1 503 No server is available for the request<p>Server: proxygen<p>Content-Type: text&#x2F;html; charset=utf-8<p>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:54:55 GMT Connection: close<p>Content-Length: 2131

And suddenly the world had no idea what kind of [fruit&#x2F;turnip&#x2F;pair of socks] they are.

This could just be a coincidence but it seems that Spotify is bugging out, I am able to open the program but it wont play any music. I authenticate with Facebook so maybe that has something to do with it.

Graph API seems down, but part of the API is still up. <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/status/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.facebook.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;</a>

HN: the new Pingdom.

I am sorry if this is ever discussed, but could someone tell me why &quot;a site is down&quot; is a big news that we should care about?

I got the home page to load once a minute ago (in San Francisco), now back to the standard fail page.

Maybe they switched their network switches to use Wedge with FBOSS and it crashed under load.

Any Postmortem Details available on this issue,So that it can be resourceful to others too

The least they could do is fix the date on the footer. :&#x2F; I have an app that shares tweets to Facebook <a href="http://2fb.me" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;2fb.me</a> so don&#x27;t &quot;LIKE&quot; what&#x27;s happening

It is up for me now, but there are still a lot of bugs. Most likely their database cluster is being partitioned. My newest feed was liked by some of my friends even though I can&#x27;t see it in my timeline or newsfeeds :)

Wow. As far as I know, this is unprecedented. A worldwide outage.

Follow status updates on Facebook&#x27;s downtime on <a href="http://twitter.com/facebook" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;facebook</a>? #fail

This is the first time I&#x27;m seeing FB down. Usually I would just assume my internet connection suck but this time, FB is agreeing that they are down.

It will be down until someone sends them a photo back.

<a href="http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;downforeveryoneorjustme.com&#x2F;facebook.com</a>

Yes, I can confirm that it is indeed down from here too (Wales, UK). That is a pretty big &#x27;down&#x27;.<p>Like and follow buttons affected too.<p>Network error on the App.

This is the first time I have observed upvotes piling up so fast. It was just 7 points a few minutes back, now it&#x27;s 70+

Back now. How long was that? Half an hour?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

I wonder what&#x27;s happening with the stock price, if anybody as any insight that&#x27;d be interesting to know.

In related news, productivity highs appear in workplaces around the world...<p>[Edit] It&#x27;s down down under as well.

I wonder how much the facebook devs are freaking out right now trying to fix this!

Is this a first? I can&#x27;t remember the last time it happened.<p>Edit: down in France as well.

While it was down, I was noticing an extra 400ms latency in ping responses.

Facebook seems to be back again! Hopefully it stays that way! :)

Looks like the downtime is about to hit the half an hour mark

Great way to make everyone not talk about that Amazon phone!

By my reckoning, this cost them about $600,000+. Ouch.

Has facebook ever put up a post mortem of outages?

All Facebook Login sites are also broken.<p>*The internet is down.

Facebook like boxes are not working as well.

Just noticed that. Luckily, I used it only a few times a day now to avoid popularity contests.

It&#x27;s definitely Anonymous and Operation Facebook. A bit late but with success...

the error page says &quot;Facebook © 2013&quot;

any hypotheses on what would have happened ?

Facebook employees, please elaborate... :)

Finally.

best way to find out how many people in HN are active fb users .

Facebook is back up :)

Who cares?

works good here in India.

Down from the moon too.

finaly..

its back now

any guesses why?

Back up!

down in italy ...

and from here (UK)

back up for me. 4 min

it&#x27;s already up!

Down in Kenya

Down in Ghana

It&#x27;s up.

It&#x27;s up in Sealand.

Why it was down?

HCMC Vietnam down

It&#x27;s back up

back up, about 4 min down for me

Down in Italy too.

Down from Australia

Down in South Korea

Down in Egypt

Lithuania too

Down from China, too

Now up here in Nepal

and Germany. First major outage, no?

UK can confirm

Facebook is up

down in papua new guinea (south pacific)

Can&#x27;t wait what Google+ has to say.

Down in Vietnam

What happened??

Up now in Italy

Down from London as well

Working again, in the UK at least 09:24 BST

Down in Belgium.

Down in Belgium.

Uups, sorry my fault... pressed the pause key

Down in Frankfurt

Down in Hong Kong as well.

Back up for me in Orlando.

And it is UP!

Down in Dubai, UAE

Down in India too.<p>Seems like a major screw up.

It is down from here Nepal too.

Yep, down here in Los Angeles, CA

It&#x27;s up for me now!! (India)

...and they&#x27;re back.

And we are back (Belgium)

Well it&#x27;s back again here in the UK.

It&#x27;s down, here in Mexico

Its working for me now! (India)

Down here in Sweden, close to the EU datacentre.

Can confirm. Down in Sweden too.

What happened its not working ~from Raipur India

Confirmed down in Dubai (via friend).

So I can code without disruption now lol

Down from China ... nah it&#x27;s not new

It sounds like the prophecy ! We all are going to die OMGOMGOMG

Seems to be going up and down from belgium

Definitely news worthy, pretty much like a &#x27;first post!&#x27; post.

Its a Marketing Stunt..

Down from Singapore too. At first, I thought they had finally blocked facebook at work.

Definitely down <a href="http://cl.ly/W9Vm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cl.ly&#x2F;W9Vm</a>

<a href="http://prntscr.com/3ubefw" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prntscr.com&#x2F;3ubefw</a>

Its a Marketing stunt...

Same at Turkey. <a href="http://webrazzi.com/2014/06/19/facebook-teknik-bir-problem-yasiyor/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webrazzi.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;19&#x2F;facebook-teknik-bir-problem-y...</a>

Actually looks like that; I am getting the following message:<p>Sorry, Something went wrong.<p>We&#x27;re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.<p>Go Back<p>Edit - This is India reporting.

Holy shit, I caught Facebook when it was down!!! Yeah!!!

Yeah Fb is down is most important event in the world now than poverty and hunger. Priorities.

Facebook shows off its DIY Networking Gear. Facebook goes down.<p>Coincidence?<p><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/18/facebook-shows-off-its-diy-networking-gear" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;18&#x2F;facebook-shows-off-it...</a>

How many submissions do we need on this topic?<p>Maybe I&#x27;m jaded because I don&#x27;t really &quot;get&quot; the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO&#x27;s wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function.<p>I normally down vote people when they say &quot;what does <i>xyz</i> have to do with HN?&quot;, but 3 submissions commenting on a procrastination portal being down is really scraping the barrel.<p>[edit]<p>I see the submissions have now been consolidated. That makes much more sense. Good work HN admins :)

Facebook was down? That&#x27;s fantastic! Hopefully people looked up from their devices and: a) listened to birdsong b) amazed at flowers and plants c) initiated a conversation with someone in physical proximity d) enjoyed what was going on instead of trying to snap a photo of it for facebook e) all of the above or f) kept hitting &quot;reload&quot;...