Reply to: Is Facebook broken?

[shaunbhoy]

Maybe you want to work out why the problem happened in the first place?

Well in an ideal world, yes. However one is seldom allowed the luxury of prolonged root cause investigation when the customer's network is on its knees. Get it working again then deliberate afterwards is the general rule of thumb in most systems I have worked on.

[Zippy]

It comes as no surprise to me that this action resolved the problem. The older I get, the more I realise that the majority of problems can generally be resolved with a 3-pin reset. Provided you can circumvent the young naive Mr Smartypants that seems always to be in attendance, suggesting prolonged and almost always pointless investigation in a vain attempt to impress senior management.

A little harsh. Maybe you want to work out why the problem happened in the first place?

[shaunbhoy]

It comes as no surprise to me that this action resolved the problem. The older I get, the more I realise that the majority of problems can generally be resolved with a 3-pin reset. Provided you can circumvent the young naive Mr Smartypants that seems always to be in attendance, suggesting prolonged and almost always pointless investigation in a vain attempt to impress senior management.

[mudskipper]

How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again. Literally.

WIS

[NickFitz]

Did the entire world come to a complete stop ?

See for yourself

[Clippy]

Worst Facebook Outage In Four Years Explained - ITProPortal.com

It was the computer.

How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again. Literally.

[fullyautomatix]

Did the entire world come to a complete stop ?

I would love it if the internet access of the world stopped for a few days. Half my life is on the internet these days and I need to kick the addiction.

[TimberWolf]

Worst Facebook Outage In Four Years Explained - ITProPortal.com

It was the computer.

[NickFitz]

I think I should put a crying smilie on here too...

:weep:

It's even been "trending" (wotever that is) on Twitter. I was quite amused by a comment (whoops, I mean "tweet") by a friend of mine. Typical capitalists, exploiting other people's misery

Oh, and there was this one as well

[d000hg]

i'm surprised you are a part of something so plebeian as facebook shauny.

Surely anyone is entitled to use Facebook mate? It's not exclusive, is it!

Yes, that's what plebian means.

Just wanted to check up on #3 son's "Freshers Week" antics really. Ah well, no luck!

Delete him now! You shouldn't be friends with your kids on Facebook, it's the law, I think.

You can want to be friends with your kids, but your kids should most definitely not accept. Probably he's already got a new account with a different name

[AtW]

It is amazing what you can do with a group of distributed machines under your control eh?

Like getting lots of unique IPs to register lots of sockies at CUK

[administrator]

Some kind of attack on the Net is going on, you heard it on here first...

It is amazing what you can do with a group of distributed machines under your control eh?

[administrator]

DNS death error from here.

Service Unavailable - DNS failure

The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.


I only go on there once in a blue-moon so no worries. I always think of the poor techie who knows it is his fault

Or could it be some sort of hackage? Remember the DNS flaw from a year or so back that took Google out? Just checked and it was 2005. Where has the time gone? I think I should put a crying smilie on here too...

[AtW]

Some kind of attack on the Net is going on, you heard it on here first...

[mudskipper]

Service Unavailable - DNS failure
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.

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