$ ping facebook.com
PING facebook.com (69.63.189.16): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 69.63.189.16: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=74.262 ms
64 bytes from 69.63.189.16: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=74.830 ms
64 bytes from 69.63.189.16: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=77.173 ms
^C
However, a packet trace shows that ip doesn't respond to tcp SYN on port 80.
A second attempt in Safari reports this:
Service Unavailable - DNS failure
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Reference #11.a1afb4cd.1285274970.3d84fde
When this happened, 205.180.175.165 (Akamai) responded with a 503.
Yep, it's down
