…The problems appeared to begin with a routine BGP update that went wrong, wiping out the DNS routing information that Facebook needs to allow other networks to find its sites.Īpparently, they tried turning it off and back on again, without success. The explanation doesnâ€™t give much in the way of detail, but it seems like Facebookâ€™s machines werenâ€™t able to talk to one another â€” Facebook says that â€œthis disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.â€ According to the company, this wasn’t a hack, but rather “the result of a configuration change to its routers”. I was watching Squid Game at the time, so I was fine, but I really feel for all of those meals that were eaten without the benefit of being posted to social media.įor six full hours, Facebook, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, experienced an outage. That doesn’t work either.Â Total, unadulterated panic. You realise Facebook and Instagram are down, so you open WhatsApp. You open and close Facebook and Instagram.

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