Details of the outage case are at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-details-on-todays-outage/431441338919">http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-details-on-todays-outage/431441338919</a><br>
<br>In short, code problem which required them "turn off" the site to resolve. Nothing to do with Akamai/etc.<br><br>  Scott.<br><br>