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Re:Is Facebook down? by pdknsk on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:04PM (#4902070)
If it's down for you, try these IPs, to check whether is a DNS problem.

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	69.171.229.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	173.252.100.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	173.252.101.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	66.220.152.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	66.220.158.16
  facebook.com.		1690	IN	A	69.171.224.32
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Re:Is Facebook down? by iddqd on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:10PM (#4902119)
Querying Facebook's DNS servers directly shows something is definitely wrong:

  $ dig +short @b.ns.facebook.com www.facebook.com
  star.facebook.com.
  $ dig +short @b.ns.facebook.com star.facebook.com
  $
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Re:Is Facebook down? by Yoni1 on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:10PM (#4902115)
Yup, that worked. However it's pretty useless as nobody else is online :)
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Re:Is Facebook down? by dieds on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:30PM (#4902242)
Works when adding these to hosts in the Netherlands. Pretty funny, almost everyone offline :O
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Re:Is Facebook down? by thomasbk on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:42PM (#4902306)
It's back up for me in the Netherlands after doing ipconfig /flushdns in console, fwiw.
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Re:Is Facebook down? by chuhnk on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:06PM (#4902085)
facebook.com redirects to www.facebook.com which in turn does not resolve.
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Re:Is Facebook down? by Yoni1 on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:10PM (#4902117)
You can add those IPs as "www.facebook.com" in your hosts file and then the site becomes accessible.
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Re:Is Facebook down? by trendspotter on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:12PM (#4902130)
Doesn't work for me. Facebook still not loading in Germany.
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