We’re seeing error messages on all three services across iOS applications as well as on the web.
It’s not just you: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all currently down for users around the world. In the latest update, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer says that Facebook is “experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore.” There is, however, no timeline on when to expect the services to come back online. Update 4:30 p.m ET: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp have now been down for five hours. Your mileage may vary for now, but the services are in the process of coming back to life. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. "Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.Update: 5:55 p.m. However, they also said that sabotage could also be a possibility, as per Reuters. A BGP is like the internet's navigation system.Īccording to security experts, an internal mistake could have caused the disruption. Murch said the core issue was that, "Facebook has withdrawn the so-called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route that contains the IP addresses of its DNS nameservers", as per The Wired. Troy Mursch, the chief research officer of cyberthreat intelligence company Bad Packets, said, “Facebook's outage appears to be caused by DNS however that's a just symptom of the problem.” However, in this case, something more serious could have caused the issue. They can happen for a number of technical reasons and are relatively easy to resolve.
DNS mishaps are quite common and most likely the reason behind the outage of any website. Facebook blamed the major outage on router work, AFP reported.Įarlier, The Wired suggested that the outage could have been due to its Domain Name System (DNS) becoming unreachable.ĭNS can be seen as the phone book of the internet.
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