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Facebook is down in Northern Europe

27 points by MindTwister 15y ago

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pestaa 15y ago
In Middle Europe, too. I'm actually quite happy about it. Tons of companies use their Facebook pages for marketing instead of driving traffic to the website they control. Similarly, almost everybody I know now communicate through Facebook only. I hope this is a good lesson for them, and everybody can get back to distributed systems.
digitalengineer 15y ago
Noticed this as well this morning. It's back up again. (Of course).
whalesalad 15y ago
It's down for me as well in Sweden. Using an SSH tunnel right now to my Linode box to access it. This also came in handy last night for watching Die Hard on Netflix :) If anyone is interested in how this works, there are hundreds of things online that explain it, but here it is in a gist: SSH to your server using the -D <port> flag, so in my case it's "ssh -D 8080 whalesalad.com" At this point, you've got a local SOCKS proxy running on 127.0.0.1:8080. I typically use Chrome, so when doing proxied stuff I rely on Firefox as it can have it's own proxy settings. In Firefox, open prefs and go to Advanced > Network > Settings... (For, 'Configure how Firefox should connect to the Internet') Choose manual proxy config, SOCKS Host is 127.0.0.1 and port is 8080 (or whatever port you specify with your ssh -D command) Save everything and visit something like ipchicken.com to confirm that your browser appears to be tunneling traffic through your server. Voila! Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, everything works. My friend also used this while he was in China to access everything. i <3 ssh p.s. as I write this, 9:02AM in Sweden, FB is back.
- vitobcn 15y ago
  had the same issue and solved it the same way. If you want to do that on a more regular basis, I would recommend to set-up a program like MyEnTunnel (which is basically a UI for Putty) that maintains the ssh tunnel open. And on top of that, if you install a firefox / Chrome extension such as foxyProxy there's no need to manually change the proxy configuration, but you can define patterns on a site basis (netflix, etc.)
  - justincormack 15y ago
    Or run squid on your Linode box as a proxy. A bit more setup but easier at the client end.
- thatjoshguy 15y ago
  WHALESALAD! You had a blog post on your old old old Wordpress blog about setting up an SSH tunnel[1]. Honestly, you're the person who first introduced me to the whole concepts, and who's site I would keep referring back to! Funny to see you posting on here about it. [1]: Looks like it has been 'mirrored' on blogspot http://myhowtosandprojects.blogspot.com.au/2007/08/tunelling-p2p-bitorrent-over-ssh.html http://myhowtosandprojects.blogspot.com.au/2007/08/tunelling...
tripleturnleft 15y ago
Its working for me in Sweden now.
Gmo 15y ago
It was down in France too (according to some friends)
hurrycane 15y ago
DNS issues for me in Romania. dig @8.8.8.8 www.facebook.com responds with empty A record.
creativityhurts 15y ago
It's working in Romania now.
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hessenwolf 15y ago
A whole morning without stalking hot ex-girlfriends and colleagues - the devastation!!!
lini 15y ago
DNS for www.facebook.com was out, but facebook.com resolved just fine. Added same IP for www to hosts file, problem fixed.

27 points by MindTwister 15y ago

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In Middle Europe, too. I'm actually quite happy about it. Tons of companies use their Facebook pages for marketing instead of driving traffic to the website they control. Similarly, almost everybody I know now communicate through Facebook only. I hope this is a good lesson for them, and everybody can get back to distributed systems.

digitalengineer 15y ago

Noticed this as well this morning. It's back up again. (Of course).

whalesalad 15y ago

It's down for me as well in Sweden. Using an SSH tunnel right now to my Linode box to access it. This also came in handy last night for watching Die Hard on Netflix :) If anyone is interested in how this works, there are hundreds of things online that explain it, but here it is in a gist: SSH to your server using the -D <port> flag, so in my case it's "ssh -D 8080 whalesalad.com" At this point, you've got a local SOCKS proxy running on 127.0.0.1:8080. I typically use Chrome, so when doing proxied stuff I rely on Firefox as it can have it's own proxy settings. In Firefox, open prefs and go to Advanced > Network > Settings... (For, 'Configure how Firefox should connect to the Internet') Choose manual proxy config, SOCKS Host is 127.0.0.1 and port is 8080 (or whatever port you specify with your ssh -D command) Save everything and visit something like ipchicken.com to confirm that your browser appears to be tunneling traffic through your server. Voila! Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, everything works. My friend also used this while he was in China to access everything. i <3 ssh p.s. as I write this, 9:02AM in Sweden, FB is back.

vitobcn 15y ago
had the same issue and solved it the same way. If you want to do that on a more regular basis, I would recommend to set-up a program like MyEnTunnel (which is basically a UI for Putty) that maintains the ssh tunnel open. And on top of that, if you install a firefox / Chrome extension such as foxyProxy there's no need to manually change the proxy configuration, but you can define patterns on a site basis (netflix, etc.)
- justincormack 15y ago
  Or run squid on your Linode box as a proxy. A bit more setup but easier at the client end.
thatjoshguy 15y ago
WHALESALAD! You had a blog post on your old old old Wordpress blog about setting up an SSH tunnel[1]. Honestly, you're the person who first introduced me to the whole concepts, and who's site I would keep referring back to! Funny to see you posting on here about it. [1]: Looks like it has been 'mirrored' on blogspot http://myhowtosandprojects.blogspot.com.au/2007/08/tunelling-p2p-bitorrent-over-ssh.html http://myhowtosandprojects.blogspot.com.au/2007/08/tunelling...

tripleturnleft 15y ago

Its working for me in Sweden now.

Gmo 15y ago

It was down in France too (according to some friends)

hurrycane 15y ago

DNS issues for me in Romania. dig @8.8.8.8 www.facebook.com responds with empty A record.

creativityhurts 15y ago

It's working in Romania now.

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hessenwolf 15y ago

A whole morning without stalking hot ex-girlfriends and colleagues - the devastation!!!

lini 15y ago

DNS for www.facebook.com was out, but facebook.com resolved just fine. Added same IP for www to hosts file, problem fixed.