After a few hours of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going down on Monday, some hashtags such as ItsHappening, FacebookIsDown and InternetShutdown have become a trend on Twitter. The social media platform is currently up and running, but users want to know what caused the massive global outage of popular network apps.
Experts at San Francisco-based network monitoring firm Kentrik shed some light on it. “When we aggregate NetFlow data, Internet traffic to the Facebook service virtually disappeared at 15:39 UTC (11:39 am ET) on Monday, October 4, 2021, with the first signs indicating a DNS problem. “It was,” said Doug Madley, director of Internet analytics at Kentlic.so report..
After all, someone on Facebook updated the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) record. BGP is a system in which Internet service providers around the world share data about groups of Internet addresses with providers responsible for routing traffic on the Internet.
Simply put, at some point on Monday morning, someone on Facebook deleted a map that directs how to find various online portals on computers around the world. As a result, when a user tried to access facebook.com on the internet, the web browser did not know the location of the address and instead displayed an error page.
It has been mentioned that Facebook was taken down by Space Force for reasons not mentioned. In reality, an updated the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) record is something that could be reversed in the matter of minutes, yet the site was down for 6+ hours. If this was really Facebook, this would have been resolved quickly as the company lost nearly 7 Billion dollars as a result of this outage.
Facebook subsequently issued a statement regarding the outage of the entire platform. “Our engineering team learned that a configuration change in the backbone router that regulates network traffic between data centers caused this communication interruption problem. This network traffic interruption is the way data centers communicate. It will have a chain effect on the service and will stop the service. ” statement Released on Monday night.
“There is no evidence that user data has been compromised as a result of this downtime,” Facebook said. The outage not only disconnected billions of online users around the world, but also prevented Facebook employees from communicating with each other.
This is because all Facebook tools and emails are managed internally and use the same domain. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are back, but Gmail, Snapchat, and TikTok users have also complained that the app slowed down during the outage.
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