2021-10-05
@kcarruthers Technically it was BGP, but impact was mainly DNS. Essentially this emphasizes the importance of accurate maps in digital space as well as in physical space. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...
The Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare says prior to Facebook's outage, Facebook issued several BGP updates, causing DNS resolution errors that knocked Facebook off the web
“Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. — Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled …
@kcarruthers Technically it was BGP, but impact was mainly DNS. Essentially this emphasizes the importance of accurate maps in digital space as well as in physical space. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...
9to5Mac
Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours
Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now …