[outages] Larger problems caused by Facebook DNS outage?

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I suspect that Android uses facebook.com to determine internet availability
. I had the same issue - mobile phone was saying no internet access on wifi
when the access was perfectly fine.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, 00:34 Sebastian Wiesinger via Outages, <
outages at outages.org> wrote:

> I've received reports from multiple endusers that can't "access the
> internet" with their Huawei mobile phones when connecting to a
> wireless network.
>
> It seems Google had problems with their 8.8.8.8 service earlier as
> well caused by all the people trying to resolve facebook.com etc. I
> think that this might be a problem for Android gear doing connectivity
> tests over 8.8.8.8 after connecting to a new wireless network.
>
> Can anyone corroborate this?
>
> Best Regards
> Sebastian
>
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