This IT breakdown is the cherry on top of a sour cake of a week for Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more.AWS Tokyo outage takes down banks, share traders, and telcos.AWS US East region endures eight-hour wobble thanks to 'Stuck IO' in Elastic Block Store.

Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services.Meanwhile, WhatsApp rival Signal has boasted about a rise in signups for its encrypted messaging plattform. New York Times reporter Sheera Frenkel said she was 'just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate the extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.'ĭ is reporting falling levels of complaints by users across the US and rest of the world though services remain down at time of going to publication. 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at Cloudflare, tweeted that the outage was attributed to Facebook's BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routes being withdrawn on the internet.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.

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