FAA Being Hacked Today? Sites Not Available?

A search of the FAA.GOV website was unsuccessful all day Sunday from our computers and phones in Southwest Florida. Trying to go to the Federal Aviation Administration webpage led to this warning:

"This site can’t be reached
faa.gov’s server IP address could not be found.

Try:Checking the connection
Checking the proxy, firewall, and DNS configuration
Running Windows Network Diagnostics

ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"

or a message said the website could not be found.

We discovered the issue when trying to find Temporary Flight Restrictions, or TFRs on the FAA website at tfr.faa.gov this morning.  This site is a required page to look at before pilots fly anywhere. It designates locations where aircraft are restricted for reasons such as Presidential visits, stadium NFL, MLB games, and high security areas. 

When trying to get to TFR.FAA.GOV  all day today the message came up as showing the page was unavailable. A check at 5:52 p.m. (EST) now shows it's working.

Whether the FAA has been hacked or a temporary glitch, or not enough personnel to keep it running is now in question, as safety may have been affected when pilots apparently could not find TFR restricted areas before they began flight or get to the main FAA site. 

Leave comments if you have trouble going to faa.gov.

UPDATE Monday Feb. 24: It appears this morning that the FAA website must first be accessed as "www.faa.gov" when using a Chrome browser and on some phones. Once your browser has stored that location, you can then use "faa.gov" to get to the website. When this programming change of the IP address was made is unknown. Normally, website programmers have coded their sites so that any web site can be accessed when the "www" is not typed in. Why the FAA has not done this is a question.