
Why are all Facebook services affected?įacebook announced plans to merge its platforms in 2019, raising concerns over the risks of centralization of social media platforms. However, the current incident is the most severe Facebook outage on record given its extent. The disruption to Facebook’s network impacted DNS service, preventing domain name resolution of addresses including įacebook has experienced international outages previously, including major partial outage incidents on 14 April 2019 and 14 March 2019 all attributed by the company to technical errors.

This could be caused by server misconfigurations or datacenter problems, amongst other issues. The root cause of the incident in not yet established, though there are indications that BGP network routes may have been withdrawn or altered, causing a knock-on impact to DNS and other servers needed to reach the services. It is likely that non-public facing Facebook services have been similarly impacted. The most visible impact is the loss of authoritative DNS, which prevents the company’s public services from resolving. Network metrics indicate a disruption to connectivity on autonomous network AS32934 owned by Facebook. ℹ️ Note: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger are currently experiencing outages in multiple countries incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #FacebookDown #WhatsAppDown /EJCq2F7tDC

Service has been gradually restored after the sixth hour although the platforms remain unstable. The incident has been ongoing for six hours at the latest update. services including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger platforms from approximately 15:45 UTC 4 October 2021. Analysis of network measurements indicate a global outage of Facebook Inc.
