Bent Tree News

For some time today, no one using the campus internet connection has been able to connect to the popular social networking website www.facebook.com. When questioned, Clayton IT staff member Roger Poore forwarded us the following email.

All,

As many of you have surely become aware, connectivity to
www.facebook.com, seems to be down. We don’t have any
authoritative information from facebook or their ISPs, but we
have confirmed that traffic for facebook from PeachNet
leaving PeachNet via any of our ISPs stops somewhere along
the way - invariably a number of hops from us.

It appears that facebooks prefixes are still being advertised
across a link or links that is no longer carrying traffic
which is why we can’t get there from here.

The problem appears to be widespread. While we don’t see
anything that we can do to remedy the situation at present,
we will continue to monitor it.

Network Support Services

Off-campus access is still possible and efforts to contact Facebook for more information have been unsuccessful.

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