In a statement, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan. This has been by far one of the largest internet outages for Facebook in recent memory, and it comes at a time where a whistleblower went public. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience."ĭoug Madory, director of internet analysis for network technology firm Kentik Inc., said it appears to be related to the Domain Name System (DNS), which routes internet traffic to where it is supposed to go.Ī DNS server is how an internet user typing in a text-based website address such as gets sent to the correct numerical IP address.įacebook would be in charge of its own DNS service, but Madory said the routes being made available to its sites for its networking partners were withdrawn, resulting in a "near complete global outage" of all Facebook properties. Facebook service has been restored after an outage lasting almost six hours hit the company's services on Monday. Well, that’s because Facebook and all of its social media platforms including Instagram and WhatsApp were down and just about starting to come back up online for most of its users around the world. Thank you for bearing with us.- 30 minutes after it began, Facebook acknowledged the outage in a tweet, saying that around the world some "people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Monday, with Instagram and WhatsApp also suffering outages. To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. (WJW/AP) Facebook was reportedly down for tens of thousands of users starting just after 11:30 a.m.
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