Facebook down across Thailand – reports

[Daniel Boon]

I have been sending and receiving stuff from my Wife (in Surin, me in OZ) ... whereas phone calls have been problematic ...

[attrayant]

It's a shame nobody thought to do a traceroute during the outage. While a single trace might not be conclusive, a dozen or more from folks in various places and with assorted ISPs would be more revealing. Presently:

Tracing route to facebook.com [173.252.110.27]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     6 ms     9 ms    10 ms  10.23.144.1
  2    11 ms    10 ms     8 ms  10.92.227.241
  3    12 ms     9 ms     9 ms  119-46-147-54.static.asianet.co.th [119.46.147.54]
  4     8 ms     8 ms     8 ms  119-46-147-49.static.asianet.co.th [119.46.147.49]
  5    11 ms     8 ms    11 ms  61-91-213-177.static.asianet.co.th [61.91.213.177]
  6    10 ms    10 ms    12 ms  61-91-213-35.static.asianet.co.th [61.91.213.35]
  7    11 ms    10 ms    16 ms  61-91-213-81.static.asianet.co.th [61.91.213.81]
  8    11 ms    14 ms    15 ms  TIG-Net242-49.trueintergateway.com [113.21.242.49]
  9    42 ms     *       44 ms  TH-IDR-MTT1-26-202.trueintergateway.com [122.144.26.202]
 10    40 ms    43 ms    38 ms  SG-ICR-GS2-241-210.trueintergateway.com [113.21.241.210]
 11    48 ms    44 ms    45 ms  xe-7-1-1.pr01.sin1.tfbnw.net [103.4.96.29]
 12    40 ms    46 ms    43 ms  ae11.bb02.sin1.tfbnw.net [31.13.28.148]
 13   276 ms   277 ms   273 ms  be6.bb02.lax1.tfbnw.net [204.15.20.79]
 14   289 ms     *      274 ms  ae13.bb02.atl1.tfbnw.net [31.13.28.111]
 15   277 ms   275 ms   274 ms  be26.bb01.frc3.tfbnw.net [31.13.27.118]
 16   274 ms   272 ms   269 ms  ae87.dr03.frc1.tfbnw.net [173.252.64.51]
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19   273 ms   274 ms   272 ms  edge-star-shv-13-frc1.facebook.com [173.252.110.27]

Line 11 is the Facebook server in Singapore.

[keemapoot]

I suppose one gateway also means one big single point of failure, which means, internet reliability is less assured than before in Thailand.

[metisdead]

A post in violation of fair use policy has been removed.

[englishoak]

apologies metis, this should be inline now Thai military seeks Facebook, Google cooperation with censorship

Reuters) - Thailand's military junta will send officials to Singapore and Japan in coming days to seek tighter censorship of social media from Facebook, Google Inc and instant messenger service Line, a government spokesman said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/29/us-thailand-politics-censorship-idUSKBN0E91FB20140529

[T_Dog]

Rather than censoring the internet, perhaps the government would consider eliminating the draconian laws on the books and move toward the modern age. If Thailand wants to be an economic success in today's world, more control of communication is certainly not going to take them in the right direction.

[englishoak]

Thai authorities to build state-owned social network site

Mon, 02/06/2014 - 18:40 | by prachatai

The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) is proposing a plan to build a state-owned Facebook-like social networking site called Thailand Social Network.

http://prachatai.org/english/node/4076

interesting new developments on the social media issue

[keemapoot]

In China, the government has created an "invisible birdcage" internet where the top social media companies like Renren (none Government owned) have thrived and copied Facebook's features. I don't see a Thai government-owned one working however, so maybe Thailand should take a page from China's model if they plan on installing these tight controls.

[T_Dog]

I see the Daily Mail is blocked with a stern warning. Looks like it won't be long and news from outside will be limited by the single gateway. Most Thai folks I interact with know exactly what is going on, so I really fail to see the benefit any controls on the internet will provide. Interesting to note, one of my Thai friends recommended looking up articles by Andrew Marshall, and he is in the military.

[Crushdepth]

In other news, economists revise Thai GDP forecasts upwards due to unexplained spike in productivity.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

[attrayant]

Echoing one of my other posts in this thread:

Google is building satellites to spread internet to the whole world

Hopefully it won't be too much longer before governments don't get to control what people can say to each other.

[EBlair48]

In other news, economists revise Thai GDP forecasts upwards due to unexplained spike in productivity.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Yes, Victory Gin is up 20 % over forcasts, and Victory Cigarettes 30 % !!

Whoops, we're late for the two minute-hate, gotta dash....

Winston and Julia

[londonthai]

I just got message from fb:

"Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

same message from another social media

[Seastallion]

I just got message from fb:

"Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

same message from another social media

Yeah, me too, but since it was generated by FB, it probably means FB is down, not that we are blocked from using it.

[coma]

I just got message from fb:

"Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

same message from another social media

Yeah, me too, but since it was generated by FB, it probably means FB is down, not that we are blocked from using it.

Me 3.

Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.

[legend23]

Instagram too, supposedly.

They even got the Facebook app too!!!

[culicine]

I just got message from fb:

"Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

same message from another social media

Yeah, me too, but since it was generated by FB, it probably means FB is down, not that we are blocked from using it.

I used isitdownrightnow.com

and it shows the facebook server is down (presumably everywhere).

[joepattaya1961]

M4

[wjuranek]

just got this from a google search. It looks like a Facebook related issues as the US and UK are experiencing similar problems.

Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

[DrTuner]

Looks like it came back already. FB probably had a glitch.

[alocacoc]

Unfortunately Facebook is back.

[coma]

Facebook users around the world have been left twiddling their thumbs tonight with the social media site crashing unexpectedly.

Read more at http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/2014/06/19/18/17/facebook-goes-down-unexpectedly#uDTKbQ5jGO3t4e2X.99

[ratcatcher]

Facebook down across Thailand – reports

Losing Face (book) is an Oriental thing, isn't it?

[chotthee]

Facebook down across Thailand – reports

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Losing Face (book) is an Oriental thing, isn't it?

Block? block? block? OMG

[webfact]

RT @TheNextWeb: UPDATE: Facebook is back up for many people now http://t.co/HKg4VnT2iF

[balo]

It was a world wide problem with facebook today , I was hoping it would last for a while but no luck .

[Seastallion]

I just got message from fb:

"Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

same message from another social media

Yeah, me too, but since it was generated by FB, it probably means FB is down, not that we are blocked from using it.

Yep, the message is here https://www.facebook.com/, so that means you are at FB website.

[taony]

Help!

-*I typed this myself*-