Miscellaneous Tech News
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if you can believe it.
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It is slow as molasses for that page.
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@scottalanmiller Slack is accessible at least in the East Cost, Same for Whatsapp, Twitter and Teams.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller Slack is accessible at least in the East Cost, Same for Whatsapp, Twitter and Teams.
If I VPN to Miami, WhatsApp is down there.
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Level 3 reporting that it is impacted.
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Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare.Issue seems to be related to BGP routes. However, this does not necessarily make sense as regions that connect to Facebook without going over the Internet are ALSO down, completely.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare.Issue seems to be related to BGP routes. However, this does not necessarily make sense as regions that connect to Facebook without going over the Internet are ALSO down, completely.
On my end, Facebook DNS entries are non-existent.
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@scottalanmiller Yup Facebook down
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare.Issue seems to be related to BGP routes. However, this does not necessarily make sense as regions that connect to Facebook without going over the Internet are ALSO down, completely.
On my end, Facebook DNS entries are non-existent.
So they have two issues.
No DNS entries AND no BGP routes... holy cow!
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage
The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity. It was unclear what the cause of the error messages were. Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare.Issue seems to be related to BGP routes. However, this does not necessarily make sense as regions that connect to Facebook without going over the Internet are ALSO down, completely.
On my end, Facebook DNS entries are non-existent.
CF said that DNS was only removed after BGP removed the IPs.
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last few hours I have had issues getting to ML and to Microsoft.. I suspect - it's related.
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@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
last few hours I have had issues getting to ML and to Microsoft.. I suspect - it's related.
I had issues with telegram 20 mins ago..
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@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
last few hours I have had issues getting to ML and to Microsoft.. I suspect - it's related.
No trouble with ML for me.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update. -
@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.How does that affect DNS?
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.How does that affect DNS?
Disclaimer:
I do not own, did not write the article describing the issues with Facebook et al, or BGP. -
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
DNS—short for Domain Name System—is the service that translates human-readable hostnames (like arstechnica.com) to raw, numeric IP addresses (like 18.221.249.245). Without working DNS, your computer doesn't know how to get to the servers that host the website you're looking for. The problem goes deeper than Facebook's obvious DNS failures, though. Facebook-owned Instagram was also down, and its DNS services—which are hosted on Amazon rather than being internal to Facebook's own network—were functional. Instagram and WhatsApp were reachable but showed HTTP 503 failures (no server is available for the request) instead, an indication that while DNS worked and the services' load balancers were reachable, the application servers that should be feeding the load balancers were not.
