RE: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

[Warren Bailey <wbailey () gci com>]

We've always been able to ping facebook, it seems the people with the most trouble are hitting akamai's caching. The 
209.165.150.24 is local to us, as we host akamai for facebook in Alaska.

ping www.facebook.com

Pinging a1254.g.akamai.net [209.165.150.24] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.165.150.24: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=57
Reply from 209.165.150.24: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=57
Reply from 209.165.150.24: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=57
Reply from 209.165.150.24: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 209.165.150.24:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 41ms, Average = 14ms


-----Original Message-----
From: Jorge Amodio [mailto:jmamodio () gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:16 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

Looks that it came back up now ...

root@tango:/var/cache/bind# ping -c 10 www.facebook.com
PING a1254.g.akamai.net (209.18.43.169) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=15.8 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=16.9 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=17.2 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=16.6 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=17.2 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=6 ttl=57 time=16.2 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=7 ttl=57 time=17.0 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=8 ttl=57 time=17.2 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=9 ttl=57 time=16.7 ms
64 bytes from 209-18-43-169.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (209.18.43.169):
icmp_seq=10 ttl=57 time=16.7 ms

J