2021 Facebook outage
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On October 4, 2021, American social network Facebook and its subsidiaries Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus became globally unavailable.[1] The outage started close to 12:00 pm Eastern Time and lasted around six hours.[2] The reason is known as the loss of IP routes to the Facebook Domain Name System (DNS) servers.[3][4]
This is believed to have been caused by a problem with Facebook's Border Gateway Protocol.[5][2] The outage also reportedly broke internal systems used by Facebook employees.[2]
2021 Facebook Outage Media
Traffic volume for Facebook services on October 4, 2021 with a drop during the global outage
Major DNS resolvers returning "SERVFAIL" status for Facebook.com
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References
- ↑ Facebook's historic outage, explained (in en). Kentik Blog. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lawler, Richard. Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR. The Verge (October 4, 2021). Retrieved October 4, 2021.
- ↑ Isaac, Mike; Frenkel, Sheera (October 4, 2021). "Facebook and all of its apps go down simultaneously.". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-down.html. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
- ↑ Facebook suffers global outage (in en). Kentik. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ↑ Duffy, Clare. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down. CNN Business (October 4, 2021). Retrieved October 4, 2021.
