---
kind: change
title: Hookshot Load balancer
created_at: 2013-2-13T12:00:00
author_name: technoweenie
---

We had an issue with the Hookshot load balancer this morning, causing the
majority of hooks to flow to a single node only.  This lead to massive queue
times.  While fixing this, we're putting the old Services backend in use.

This means the old IPs are back in use.  Use this [Help guide](https://help.github.com/articles/what-ip-addresses-does-github-use-that-i-should-whitelist)
if you already removed them from your firewall.