Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Experience Global Outages
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Facebook Is Alive, DNS Issues Being Resolved After Six Hours Of Darkness
After a Domain Name System (DNS) issue that knocked Facebook and other related products off the internet for more than six hours, there’s a sign of life coming from Facebook’s DNS servers which are broadcasting again, according to DNS Checker.
Senior Editor at The Verge tweeted, “Facebook seems to be slowly coming back to life. I’m seeing BGP announcements and DNS is back.”
Facebook seems to be slowly coming back to life. I’m seeing BGP announcements and DNS is back pic.twitter.com/LNO76M5PhR
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 4, 2021
Even though Facebook’s DNS is back up, this doesn’t mean everything is fixed; the social media platform is still inaccessible to some users.
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Just as a reminder, this circus show comes one day before a Facebook whistleblower is set to testify before Congress.
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Facebook appears to have more than DNS issues, as NYT’s Sheera Frenkel reports:
“Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.”
Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) October 4, 2021
This may suggest Facebook’s internal systems are down. DNS issues that affect the website don’t hinder employees from entering buildings.
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Update (1448ET): It’s been several hours, and Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger, are still down. According to internet researchers, Facebook appears to be dealing with a Domain Name System (DNS) issue.
Internet security researcher Brian Krebs tweeted:
Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find Facebook.com or Instagram.com got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works & all your internal FB-based tools fail?
To be more precise (and Geek Factor 5) the BGP routes serving Facebook’s authoritative DNS were withdrawn, rendering all Facebook domains inaccessible. That’s per @DougMadory , who knows a few things about BGP/DNS.
Searching for Facebook’s DNS records comes up empty-handed.
NBC News’ Kevin Collier called the DNS issues at Facebook “really bad.”
Don’t yet know exactly what’s behind the DNS issue that’s knocked Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp offline, but it’s really bad. Pretty much everything that runs through those three companies are inaccessible. Employees can’t even enter conference rooms because they’re IoT!
— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) October 4, 2021
JUST IN: Facebook’s DNS problem is actually affecting the internet. DNS providers are being hammered with queries pic.twitter.com/GrzsJ5SHWm
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 4, 2021
Meanwhile, everyone on Twitter..
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Downdector reports that Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger are experiencing issues and /or outages worldwide. The outage comes just before a Facebook whistleblower is set to testify before Congress on Tuesday. On the bright side, with a broad part of social media platforms down today, maybe people will get back to work and boost global productivity since the outage is broad.
Users began to report issues with the social media platform around 1120 ET.
Facebook users report the website won’t load with an error message that reads:
“Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.”
Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone acknowledged on Twitter that “some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.”
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) October 4, 2021
The timing of the widespread outages comes as a Facebook whistleblower will be testifying before Congress on Tuesday. The whistleblower appeared on “60 Minutes” Sunday, detailing the tech company’s mission to put profit before doing “what was good for the public,” including clamping down on hate speech.
Shares of the tech company slid 6% by early afternoon, tumbling not just on the whistleblower but also the global outage.
Facebook users took to Twitter to complain about the outages:
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp experiencing worldwide outage!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/EIMKqrtUFK
— Nate (@natedoggie1134) October 4, 2021
The Facebook DNS outage will quickly expose the hidden dependencies some of us have on Facebook (company), even if we barely use the social network.
For me, it’s WhatsApp.
Reminds me of the story of when Google took down their “Chubby” service:
— Danny Kopping (@dannykopping) October 4, 2021
Does anyone else think this Facebook outage is timed perfectly if they want to clean house in the face of the whistleblower’s interview so that even more dirt isn’t found?
— Tim Palomo (@timpalomo1) October 4, 2021
Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger all down in major outage.
Conspiracy theorists say just shortly after Whistleblower interview (which I’ve not seen) #facebook #interview
— Graham Riddell Photography (@GR_SLR) October 4, 2021
If anyone out there is wondering, I can confirm that Facebook and Instagram are having massive outages.
Weird after this whistleblower stuff from @60Minutes last night. https://t.co/NYS9C8gH5r
— Adam Greenbaum (@Greenbaumly) October 4, 2021
*This story is developing…
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