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#2789678 5-Oct-2021 10:45

mcraenz:

When I woke up my Android phone (Huawei) kept reporting wi-fi connected but no internet. Googled, 'what's my IP'...that's definitely my home IP so not on 4G. Why does my phone think there's no internet...Does it measure internetness in Facebook availability?

http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204 is the default way for android to check for internet connectivity.

For some reason Huawei changed this and it's really silly.

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#2789680 5-Oct-2021 10:47

I really dislike Facebook, but have a weird twitch where my fingers automatically hit Ctrl-T and an abbreviation for the Facebook page when my mind wanders. Thereby ending up spending far more time getting annoyed at people on the internet.

In order to get anything done when I have nasty deadlines, I've had to resort to using Leechblock, which I have set to 1 minute of Facebook and the like per hour.

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#2789681 5-Oct-2021 10:51

coffeebaron:

Facebook down = drop in productivity due to people trying to find out why Facebook is down and checking every 5mins to see if its up and running again yet

*It's back now. Praise Be. May the Lord Open.

* (edit) kind of - working on mobile / sporadic on PC.

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#2789683 5-Oct-2021 10:54

That feeling of hope at the thought something so catastrophic has happened to Facebook that it will never come back, dashed by the cruel realisation that it will indeed be back soon.

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#2789686 5-Oct-2021 11:00

mcraenz:

When I woke up my Android phone (Huawei) kept reporting wi-fi connected but no internet. Googled, 'what's my IP'...that's definitely my home IP so not on 4G. Why does my phone think there's no internet...Does it measure internetness in Facebook availability?

my wifes huawei P30 pro is also doing exactly this from when she got up this morning,

says the wifi is connected but no internet, its also bringing up internet connection error messages in chrome using mobile data but it actually will load websites etc, data is flowing

they are using facebooks network for something in the OS, not impressed.

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#2789706 5-Oct-2021 11:30

It's back online....sigh....

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#2789710 5-Oct-2021 11:34

Interestingly my ISP, Orcon. Sent out a mass sms message advising users that Facebook and related services were down but the internet at large was up. I wonder how slammed their helpdesk was to prompt them to do that.

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#2789712 5-Oct-2021 11:38

mcraenz:

When I woke up my Android phone (Huawei) kept reporting wi-fi connected but no internet. Googled, 'what's my IP'...that's definitely my home IP so not on 4G. Why does my phone think there's no internet...Does it measure internetness in Facebook availability?

As mentioned in the P30 thread, I guess Huawei pings Facebook to see if it's connected or not, like Microsoft pings some domains to report "Connected" and "Connected, no Internet available" on Windows.

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#2789716 5-Oct-2021 11:41

WhatsApp still down though.

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#2789732 5-Oct-2021 12:07

zocster: WhatsApp still down though.

Mine just warned me that messages may not have been sent due to having no connection - but one I tried to send about 4 hours ago just went through.

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#2789752 5-Oct-2021 12:38

freitasm:

Signal.

Well.. try convincing your family to move to Signal. 🤣 Mine would never move. :(

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#2789754 5-Oct-2021 12:47

freitasm:
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (cloudflare.com)

It’s always DNS.

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#2789763 5-Oct-2021 13:13

MadEngineer:
freitasm:

Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (cloudflare.com)

It’s always DNS.

Nope, BGP.

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#2789765 5-Oct-2021 13:21

freitasm:
mcraenz:

When I woke up my Android phone (Huawei) kept reporting wi-fi connected but no internet. Googled, 'what's my IP'...that's definitely my home IP so not on 4G. Why does my phone think there's no internet...Does it measure internetness in Facebook availability?

As mentioned in the P30 thread, I guess Huawei pings Facebook to see if it's connected or not, like Microsoft pings some domains to report "Connected" and "Connected, no Internet available" on Windows.

I've had no issues whatsoever on my P30 Pro today.

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#2789778 5-Oct-2021 13:34

Interesting, I'm also on a P30 Pro. I didn't have any issues per se, just the wee exclamation mark next to the wifi symbol.

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