Facebook down

[renegade7]

pretty sure it's a DDOS, I've seen plenty of them in the last couple days...anyway, seems that Facebook is down.

EDIT: Guess I spoke too soon, I was getting an invalid URL error and I figured that with all the other internet shenanigans that have gone on lately that was it.

EDIT AGAIN: For future reference, I couldn't log in until I flushed my dns...CMD>IPCONFIG/FLUSHDNS

 

[ZeroMachine]

Er... no. Just for you, I'm afraid.

 

[Milo Windby]

Odd, I just checked and its still up and running...

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Just you my good sir, facebook works fine for me.

 

[Argtee]

Yeah, facebook is fine for me as well.

 

[Tdc2182]

Don't jump the gun just yet, I highly doubt that a giant website like facebook would be taken down that easily.

 

[Hungry Donner]

It's working for me, but it's possible it's having problems in some areas and not others.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Works just fine for me.

Looks like it might be a problem on your end.

 

[Shadu]

It's just you I'm afraid. I've been off and on Facebook all day without a problem. Was just on a few seconds ago, actually.

 

[mcattack92]

Facebook has allot of servers running it's website. For a ddos to work, it would requirea HUGE ammount of attackers to hit to even try to knock it out. As there are over 500 million users, Facebook would have the resources to be handle a large portion of this number at the same time.

 

[Buizel91]

Just you my good man,

May i suggest un-pluging your internet, then plug it back in after 30 seconds?

 

[Nuke_em_05]

All clear from here.

For future reference:

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

A few others that do the same out there, make fun use of the ".me" suffix.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Don't jump the gun just yet, I highly doubt that a giant website like facebook would be taken down that easily.

... Two words: Playstation Network.

 

[Lilani]

Don't jump the gun just yet, I highly doubt that a giant website like facebook would be taken down that easily.

... Two words: Playstation Network.

I'm pretty sure Facebook has a lot more users (and thus a LOT more servers and backups) than the PSN. There are 700,000 users in North America alone. I don't know how many users the PSN has, but I do know Lulzsec compromised only 12,000 credit cards. The PSN and Facebook are in completely different leagues as far as size.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Don't jump the gun just yet, I highly doubt that a giant website like facebook would be taken down that easily.

... Two words: Playstation Network.

I'm pretty sure Facebook has a lot more users (and thus a LOT more servers and backups) than the PSN. There are 700,000 users in North America alone. I don't know how many users the PSN has, but I do know Lulzsec compromised only 12,000 credit cards. The PSN and Facebook are in completely different leagues as far as size.

You're right that Facebook has more users (though your numbers are very, very humble- PSN has about 20 million users while Facebook boasts around 500 million) but all things considered, especially considering Facebook's history, I'd guess that their protection would be about equal.

But, hey, it's just a guess. For all I know about security, you're probably right. Still, I wouldn't say it's an overly far fetched idea that it could happen.

 

[Tdc2182]

Don't jump the gun just yet, I highly doubt that a giant website like facebook would be taken down that easily.

... Two words: Playstation Network.

It wasn't taken down by the Hackers, Playstation took it offline on their own for security reasons. It could have still run online, but there would have been absolutely no security and seeing how the hackers had most likely stolen the "blueprints" so to speak, they could have absolutely changed the system around.

The amount of security that comes with Facebook is much more advanced. It would be like taking down google, and from what I understand, that's really hard.

 

[renegade7]

couldnt they just attack the server that handles login requests? it's not actually possible to block a DDOS... though I do know I was wrong and the prob was on my end