Facebook blames mini-outage on technical glitch 1y46a

By Associated Press | Updated: 11 December 2012 08:14 IST

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Facebook says some s were briefly unable to access the site because of a technical glitch.

The social networking site with over 1 billion s worldwide says on Monday it made a change to its domain name system setup. The change resulted in some s temporarily not being able to reach the site.

The problem was detected and the site is now fully back.

A DNS acts like a phone book for the Internet, translating a domain name like facebook.com into a number that points to a specific host computer.

Facebook did not say how many s were affected or for how long. Some technology blogs say the problems lasted about 20 minutes.

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