Facebook broken over v6?
Chad Greene
cgreene at fb.com
Fri Jun 7 20:23:49 CEST 2013
Jeroen
Thanks for the heads up. I've forwarded along to our prodnet team to ensure they're aware if the issue.
Chad
On Jun 7, 2013, at 11:21 AM, "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen at massar.ch> wrote:
> On 2013-06-07 09:12, Aaron Hughes wrote:
>>
>> Anyone else getting connection hangs and closes to Facebook?
>
> Yes, and from a lot of vantage points, thus it is not your local network
> that is at fault, seems that there are some IP addresses which are being
> returned by some Facebook DNS servers that are actually not properly
> provisioned and thus do not respond.
>
> More to it at:
> http://www.sixxs.net/forum/?msg=general-9511818
>
> I've informed the Facebook peoples (and bcc'd them on this email), and
> apparently they are digging into it from the response I've received.
>
> Note that using www.v6.facebook.com apparently works fine as that IP is
> not affected and is not geo-balanced or something like that thus is
> always (afaik) the same. Thus if you like sharing your life and
> everything you do, that is the thing to use.
>
> I guess, this is affecting more and more people as there are now various
> providers who are delivering IPv6 natively or via 6rd and a lot of
> eyeballs live there. Good that there is still MySpace which does not do
> IPv6 eh ;)
>
> Greets,
> Jeroen
> (not a social network user, but I do hope this gets resolved for the
> ones that do use them)
>
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