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#1 Post by ricardian » Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:18 pm

For users of Facebook - it's down
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#2 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:29 pm

WhatsApp and Instagram are down as well.



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#3 Post by ian16th » Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:39 pm

ricardian wrote:
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For users of Facebook - it's down
Oh dear! How sad! Never Mind!
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#4 Post by Woody » Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:59 pm

This is the biggest catastrophe since McDonalds ran out of milkshakes :-o
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#5 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Oct 04, 2021 6:00 pm

ian16th wrote:
Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:39 pm
ricardian wrote:
Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:18 pm
For users of Facebook - it's down
Oh dear! How sad! Never Mind!
WhatsApp is a pain in the arse though. How else am I going to cajole, abuse or otherwise contact family members in South Africa? =))
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#6 Post by G~Man » Mon Oct 04, 2021 6:22 pm

OMG---How will the world survive......
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#7 Post by Boac » Mon Oct 04, 2021 6:24 pm

Sorry - Face what?

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#8 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 04, 2021 6:42 pm

If only it were terminal.

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#9 Post by OFSO » Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:44 pm

Agree with all of the preceding. Couldn't care less about Farcebiik and Instygram, but WhatsApp is vital.

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#10 Post by llondel » Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:49 pm

In other news, global productivity has significantly increased (except amongst those who use WhatsApp for their business).

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#11 Post by Rwy in Sight » Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:07 pm

OFSO wrote:
Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:44 pm
Agree with all of the preceding. Couldn't care less about Farcebiik and Instygram, but WhatsApp is vital.
I am surprised you are use WhatsApp as a messenger service when the alternatives are so much better - mainly independent use from a lap top with the mobile off.

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#12 Post by llondel » Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:16 pm

Saw a comment go by on Twitter that said that FB staff can't even get into the building to see what's wrong because their electronic passes don't work either. I find that a bit far-fetched, I would expect some of the stuff to be staffed 24/7, although perhaps the staff inside aren't responding either.

Imagine the fun if it turns out that FB has been hit by a massive ransomware attack and petabytes of accumulated drivel has been scrambled. It might even make more sense.

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#13 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:53 pm

Hope they don't hit YouTube. :-ss
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#14 Post by llondel » Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:32 pm

Perhaps their server network became self-aware and had a nervous breakdown.

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#15 Post by llondel » Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:47 pm

It appears to be back. I've been poking the refresh button every couple of hours and it responded last time. No updates for six hours though.

Seems to be read-only at the moment though.

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#16 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:18 pm

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp 'coming back online' after major outages
The networks went down shortly before noon on Monday; WhatsApp employees were even locked out of their own conference rooms as a result of the outage.


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Facebook said its platform, Instagram and WhatsApp were "coming back online" after a massive outage on Monday knocked out service to the social media giants, taking the sites offline for users across the world.

All three platforms, owned and operated by Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, California, went out of service at 11:39 a.m. ET. By around 6 p.m. ET, users of all three platforms reported that some service had been restored, but full functionality remained elusive well into Monday evening.

Facebook issued a statement at around 6:30 p.m. ET apologizing for the outage and said that its apps and services were being restored.


"To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry," Facebook said. "We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us."

The company has not fully explained what caused the over six hour outage, only blaming "networking issues."

Earlier on Monday, Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer at Facebook, had to go on Twitter to offer his "sincere apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now."

"We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible," Schroepfer tweeted just before 4 p.m. ET, over four hours after the outage began.

WhatsApp tweeted: "We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!"

And Instagram took to Twitter and posted the hashtag #instagramdown with the message: "Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! "

One Facebook employee said it appeared to be a Domain Name System problem, the "phone book" of the internet that computers use to look up individual websites.

"I wish I knew. No internal tooling, DNS seems totally borked. Everyone is just sort of standing around," the source told NBC News. "No reason at this point to suspect anything malicious but the outage is affecting pretty much everything. Can't even access third-party tools."


And a WhatsApp employee told NBC News that no internal services at company headquarters worked except for email and calendars.

Even conference rooms were inaccessible during the outage, the employee said, because they’re digitally locked and unlocked through an internet-connected tablet.

The outage comes a day after Facebook faced allegations from a whistleblower that it had turned a blind eye to disinformation that led to the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

“Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety,” former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen told CBS's "60 Minutes" in an episode that aired Sunday night.

A Facebook spokeswoman, responding to the "60 Minutes" report, said the company has made "significant improvements to tackle the spread of misinformation and harmful content."

Including the Facebook CTO, Monday’s outage drove many social media users to Twitter. The platform responded to the influx by rolling out the digital welcome mat, saying simply, "hello literally everyone."

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#17 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:15 am

PHXPhlyer wrote:
Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:53 pm
Hope they don't hit YouTube.
What would TGG do? :-o :ymdevil:

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#18 Post by llondel » Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:04 am

Reports are that it was a BGP issue, not a DNS one. So it wasn't so much a problem with knowing the address as much as how to get there.

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#19 Post by Karearea » Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:05 am

Oh tragi-mess.
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#20 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:39 am

There is a certain amount of hubris, not to say, single point of "failureness", in an organisation that runs all, or most, of its systems, including e-mail and access to its facilities through its own web infrastructure. Facebook manages it own DNS and by implication it use of the Border Gateway Protocol! Own goal really!

There is also a certain irony in a failure in a network system that relies on a peer to peer routing protocol, in an organisation like Facebook that appears to believe it is peerless!
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