[outages] Facebook down?

[John Von Essen]

I mentioned this to Virendra in that survey that was sent out, but why  
do we feel its important to track facebook being up or down?

I find this list to be useful in tracking major IP outages between  
transit carriers. It goes directly to my NOC pager and all my NOC  
staff, and many times it has been very useful when people post about  
an OC-48 cut for ATT, or an XO outage, then our customers call us  
about issues and we know its not us and their carrier.

I could care less whether or not Facebook is up or down. Facebook  
doesn't effect the rest of the internet like a Level3 or ATT outage,  
or or fiber cut in NYC.

If you go to facebook.com and its down, then yes, its down. End of  
story. They are an endpoint on the internet.

I'm not opposed to other sites being reported. If Google is down,  
thats big, because Google provides a ton email proxy services.  
Likewise, the post about register.com being down was very helpful  
because they provide core DNS services. These sites/networks effect  
the internet.

But facebook is meaningless from an infrastructure/operations  
standpoint, and is a complete waste of time to discuss on this list.


-John




On Nov 18, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Peter Kranz wrote:

> Yes and no… Was down even from direct peering connection in Palo  
> Alto, now back up again..
>
>
> From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages- 
> bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Ujjval Karihaloo
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 8:22 AM
> To: outages at outages.org
> Subject: [outages] Facebook down?
>
> Is Facebook down again?
>
> _______________________________________________
> Outages mailing list
> Outages at outages.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/attachments/20101118/58bcc57e/attachment.htm>