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Larger problems caused by Facebook DNS outage?
I've received reports from multiple endusers that can't "access the
internet" with their Huawei mobile phones when connecting to a
wireless network.

It seems Google had problems with their 8.8.8.8 service earlier as
well caused by all the people trying to resolve facebook.com etc. I
think that this might be a problem for Android gear doing connectivity
tests over 8.8.8.8 after connecting to a new wireless network.

Can anyone corroborate this?

Best Regards
Sebastian

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Re: Larger problems caused by Facebook DNS outage? [ In reply to ]
I suspect that Android uses facebook.com to determine internet availability
. I had the same issue - mobile phone was saying no internet access on wifi
when the access was perfectly fine.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, 00:34 Sebastian Wiesinger via Outages, <
outages@outages.org> wrote:

> I've received reports from multiple endusers that can't "access the
> internet" with their Huawei mobile phones when connecting to a
> wireless network.
>
> It seems Google had problems with their 8.8.8.8 service earlier as
> well caused by all the people trying to resolve facebook.com etc. I
> think that this might be a problem for Android gear doing connectivity
> tests over 8.8.8.8 after connecting to a new wireless network.
>
> Can anyone corroborate this?
>
> Best Regards
> Sebastian
>
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> GPG Key: 0x58A2D94A93A0B9CE (F4F6 B1A3 866B 26E9 450A 9D82 58A2 D94A 93A0
> B9CE)
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> SCYTHE.
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