Monday, October 4, 2021
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have had a huge break on Monday that may have affected tens of millions of users. The Downtector site showed cuts in densely populated areas such as Washington and Paris from 15h45 GMT. The three applications have undergone a failure so that users can send messages and use applications correctly. Near midnight (Spanish times) the service began to restoreThe first messages were received and the application has fallen again, with intermittent cuts and partial effect, so that the system had not yet been fully recovered from all users.
In principle, experts warned of a failure in the DNS configuration, although the sabotage would be theoretically possible by a prisoner. Facebook did not communicate the possible cause of interruption, but experts in the field of cyber protection said they had found signs of interruption on the routes that people connect with the social network.
Other experts give a more concrete explanation. «It seems that the root of the Facebook problem is that someone from FB has erased his internet -bgp boards. And they have no access to re -configure their BGP because FB host their own DNS servers. Translation: they have erased themselves from the internet, “says Rafa Merino on his Twitter account.
It seems that the root of the Facebook problem is that someone from FB has erased his internet -bgp boards.
And they have no access to re -configure their BGP because FB host their own DNS servers.
Translation: they have erased themselves from the internet 🤦way
Rafa Merino (@Rafamerino) October 4, 2021
«Neither can they communicate with each other because they also remain their own e -mail. They need someone to get physical access to the servers where the BGP and reconfigure are all DNS, internal and external routes, “the expert follows.
According to NY Times, they indicate in an internal memo of FB that they were urgently sent to a team to the California data center to restore the configuration manually.
