That’s because Facebook’s email and tools are all managed in house and via the same domains that are now stranded. In addition to stranding billions of users, the Facebook outage also has stranded its employees from communicating with one another using their internal Facebook tools.
As a result, when one types into a web browser, the browser has no idea where to find, and so returns an error page. In simpler terms, sometime this morning Facebook took away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its various online properties. BGP is a mechanism by which Internet service providers of the world share information about which providers are responsible for routing Internet traffic to which specific groups of Internet addresses. ET today (15:39 UTC), someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records. Kentik’s view of the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage.ĭoug Madory is director of internet analysis at Kentik, a San Francisco-based network monitoring company.
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