Monday, October 4, 2021, 9:32 PM
The most used social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have had a huge break that may affect tens of millions of users. The Downtector site showed cuts in densely populated areas such as Washington and Paris from 15h45 GMT.
Although the cause of the interruption is not confirmed, everything points to a failure in the DNS. Not long before Facebook fell, Tickets for Facebook and Instagram are removed from the DNS you use. A DNS is essentially an internet directory. Every time someone opens a link or an application, their device must look for the DNS used by the service you are trying to open to find it and then connect it.
DNS enables web addresses to bring users to their destinations. A similar interruption of the Cloudbedrijf Akamai Technologies Inc has demolished various websites in July.
Security experts who follow the situation said that the interruption could have been caused by A configuration errorWhich can be the result of an internal error, although sabotage would be theoretically possible by a prisoner.
We are aware that submersen are currently experience problems with WhatsApp. We work to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience!
WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021
«We are aware that some people are currently experiencing problems with WhatsApp. We work for everything to get normal again and we will send an update here as soon as possible, “they say from the official Whasp account.
Faces on Facebook
User They cannot send or receive messages on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsAppNeither wear the images or videos. The three belong to the same company.
Facebook has therefore had the same failure. «Pardon, something works badly. We are working on it and we will solve it as soon as possible, “says a message that users are looking for access to the social network.
We are aware that submersen have problems with access to our apps and products. We work to get things back to normal as quickly as it is, and we apologize for the possible discomfort.
Facebook (@facebook) October 4, 2021
Facebook shares, which have nearly 2,000 million daily active users, are open after the report of the weekend -uniformities and fell further to 5.3% in Monday afternoon activities. They were on their way to their worst day in almost a year, in the midst of a huge sale of technological actions on Monday.
Other networks experienced an increase in users, because the interruption continued to exist for a few hours.
“Uploading the records in Signaal (welcome all!)” He wrote the message request on Twitter, who was still working.
“We also know what it is like to work during an interruption and we want the best for engineers who work to return the service to other platforms,” he added.
