facebook.com DNS not found 20120218 2125 UTC

Mon Feb 20 01:20:05 UTC 2012

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-Callahan

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote:
> On 2/18/2012 4:32 PM, Everett Batey wrote:
>> facebook.com DNS not found 20120218 2125 UTC
>> Is there any outage information for DNS for  facebook.com / www.facebook.com
>>  ?
>>   "Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.facebook.com"
>
> I have had two reports of "can't get to facebook" from campus today, not
> exactly from 3rd-tier helpdesk techs mind you, but a reasonably
> reputable source.  "Traceroute stops at 127.0.0.1" (yeah, I know).
>
> Works fine from campus for me, and they say the machine does "nslookup"
> a Facebook CDN provider IP (69.171.234.96).  They can go anywhere else,
> no problem.  Verified they have our DHCP server and internal recursive
> DNS servers so it's not an issue at that level.
>
> I'm "ONLY" bringing this up as my spidey-sense is wondering if there is
> some facebook-captive malware or browser plugin floating about?
>
> Ring any bells?
>
> If nothing else comes in I'm going to write it off as a Sunday evening
> hallucination and check it again tomorrow :)
>
> Jeff
>