'This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt. Update 3: 'Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,' Facebook said in an update following the outage. Update 2: After a multi-hour outage, Facebook services have begun to return. Facebook have basically deplatformed themselves from their own platform.' 'By not having BGP announcements for your DNS name servers, DNS falls apart = nobody can find you on the Internet,' Kevin Beaumont, former Microsoft's Head of Security Operations Centre, explained on Twitter. Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 started seeing high failure in last 20mins.' 'It appears their BGP routes have been withdrawn from the internet.

'Facebook DNS and other services are down,' Cloudflare SVP Dane Knecht said on Twitter. It appears that there is a Domain Name Server (DNS) issue with Facebook, with no Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes working. The reason for the downtime is not currently known, but signs point to a routing issue. Similar to Instagram, Messenger users won't be able to send or receive messages.Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and its subsidiary platforms Instagram, Oculus VR, and WhatsApp have gone offline in a global outage. We will wait to hear from Facebook about the outage and will update the copy.Īnother Facebook property, Messenger, is also down, as confirmed by Downdetector. The refresh request submitted to Facebook or Instagram on the website or app comes out as a timeout.

While it may be too early to say, this seems to be an issue around the DNS server down. Similarly, the Facebook service outage was reported by approximately 4,000 people on Downdetector and the service claims issue related to the website, app, and server connection.ĪLSO READ: WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram are down: Is it hacking attack on Facebook or some engineer made an error? The issue is said to be around server connection. Talking about Instagram, Downdetector, the website that tracks services and websites, shows that there are roughly 8,000 users who reported issues.

The Downdetector website shows almost 9,000 crash reports for WhatsApp. As per Downdetector data, WhatsApp users are reporting issues in the app as well as sending messages.

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