This IT breakdown is the cherry on top of a sour cake of a week for Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook.
#FB IG WHATSAPP DOWN SOFTWARE#
Whether that software was involved or not, it is likely a configuration change somewhere backfired and will take time to recover from.īGPlay vizualization of AS32934 route withdraw between 15:43UTC and 15:54UTC. Earlier this year, the technology giant spoke of building an automated system for managing its BGP peering configuration. You can see Facebook's withdrawal of routes for its DNS servers in the visualization below.
As such, we can't even resolve right now, and services can't be used. That broke or hampered connectivity to Facebook's DNS servers. That might just be from a surge in people turning to Twitter for info on Facebook's empire, or from an ongoing issue with authentication tokens.ĭane Knecht, senior vice president at Cloudflare, tweeted that the outage was attributed to Facebook's BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routes being withdrawn on the internet. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience," Facebook said in an understatement on Twitter – which is seemingly working just fine, though there are complaints from users that they can't get that platform to work either. "We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.