It's likely why #DeleteFacebook (opens in new tab) is also trending on Twitter. While there's no official statement as to why the outage has occurred, but for Facebook, this news comes at the heels of multiple damning reports. The longest still goes to the one that occurred on March 13, 2019, which lasted nearly 12 hours (opens in new tab). Today's outage is the second longest in Facebook history. Hodgson argues that a decentralized system is ultimately more reliable as there's no single point of failure.
We saw the same last week when Slack went down (opens in new tab)." When that basket breaks, all the eggs get smashed. "Centralized apps mean that all the eggs are in one basket. Element is a decentralized collaboration and messaging platform and Matrix is an open source API for decentralized communication with end-to-end encryption. "The ongoing outage of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook (including Facebook Messenger and Facebook Workplace) highlights that global outages are one of the major downsides of a centralized system," said Matthew Hodgson, CEO of Element (opens in new tab), technical co-founder of the Matrix (opens in new tab) open standard, in a statement to Tom's Guide. Per this Reddit user, the outage is not because of a malicious attack. In this case, local data center technicians with local physical access to the routers are the only ones able to fix this. Not only that, Facebook itself can't communicate within Facebook.Īccording to ArsTechnica (opens in new tab), a user on Reddit who claims (opens in new tab) to be a Facebook employee, posits that network engineers may have been pushing a configuration change that accidentally locked them out. Without BGP routes, there's no way for data to access Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. When someone wants to access data over the internet, it's BGP that tries to find the fastest route possible. Cloudflare (opens in new tab) describes BGP as the postal service for the internet. It also seems that the BGP, or Border Gateway Protocol, routes have been pulled from the internet. When the DNS isn't working, web browsers can't find the website being called. It's how the name of a website, such as, is translated into a raw IP address. But according to investigative journalist Brian Krebs (opens in new tab), when speaking to Doug Madory of Kentik, a network observability company, Facebook's DNS records were withdrawn from global routing tables.ĭNS stands for Domain Name System. Still, there's official release on when this outage will end or why the outage has occurred.Īs to why the outage has occurred, that has yet to be determined. Each is a variation of acknowledging the issue and telling users that work is being done to address the issue.
#INSTAGRAM WHATSAPP MESSENGER UPDATE#
While the Twitter accounts for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were slow to update users, all three services have since put out short statements. We're still waiting on an official statement from Facebook regarding the outage. ET, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back online. According to the New York Times (opens in new tab), Facebook employees' badges aren't even working, meaning they can't enter the building.According to Philip Crowther (opens in new tab) of the Associated Press, it's "mayhem" over at Facebook.According to investigative journalist Brian Krebs (opens in new tab), when speaking to Doug Madory of Kentik, a network observability company, Facebook's DNS records were withdrawn from global routing tables.Facebook has not given a reason for the outage, but has tweeted (opens in new tab) that its working on getting the issue resolved.The outage is now closing in on the seven-hour mark. ET (opens in new tab), Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR went down. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage: latest updates
Not only that, but she claims that Facebook consistently chose profit, even if it meant pushing more caustic content.īelow we've left an accounting of our updates from October 4 intact for future reference. Not only that, a Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, is set to t estify in front of Congress (opens in new tab) today about the way the company has hid its own internal data about its harms.
0 kommentar(er)
