facebook lost their A-record for www.facebook.com?

Thu Mar 8 06:20:07 UTC 2012

They had issues in Europe today:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9128716/Facebook-hit-by-two-h
our-blackout.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/facebook-back-up-after-eur
ope-outage/2012/03/07/gIQAJnNuwR_story.html

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Anurag Bhatia [mailto:me at anuragbhatia.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 2:52 AM
To: Octavio Alvarez
Cc: NANOG Mailing List
Subject: Re: facebook lost their A-record for www.facebook.com?

Good point Octavio . +trace with dig is always useful when getting weird
results.

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Anurag Bhatia
http://anuragbhatia.com
On Mar 7, 2012 1:19 PM, "Octavio Alvarez" <alvarezp at alvarezp.ods.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:43:07 -0800, Igor Ybema <igor at ergens.org> wrote:
>
>  [igor at vds ~]$ host -t A  www.facebook.com ns1.facebook.com
>> Using domain server:
>> Name: ns1.facebook.com
>> Address: 204.74.66.132#53
>> Aliases:
>>
>> www.facebook.com has no A record
>>
>
> No, it's a subdomain with its A records in another server.
>
> $ host -t A www.facebook.com glb1.facebook.com.
> Using domain server:
> Name: glb1.facebook.com.
> Address: 69.171.239.10#53
> Aliases:
>
> www.facebook.com has address 69.171.224.12
>
>
> Try dig +trace www.facebook.com to see why.
>
>
>
> --
> Octavio.
>
> Twitter: @alvarezp2000 -- Identi.ca: @alvarezp
>
>

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