![]() “Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find or got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. dMTevg6hqjĬybercrime journalist Brian Krebs reported on Twitter: “About five minutes before Facebook’s DNS stopped working we saw a large number of BGP changes (mostly route withdrawals) for Facebook’s ASN.”Ībout five minutes before Facebook's DNS stopped working we saw a large number of BGP changes (mostly route withdrawals) for Facebook's ASN. The CTO of Cloudflare tweeted that five minutes before the Facebook DNS stopped working, they noticed a large number of BGP route withdrawals. Facebook BGP Routes WithdrawnĪccording to reports on Twitter, the BGP routes to Facebook have been dropped from the Internet. The browser makes the request and the BGP routing system calculates the fastest series of network hops to reach that content on Facebook’s servers. Whois domain name lookup services and domain name registrars are reporting that the Facebook domain name does not exist and is available for sale. Screenshot Showing Facebook Domain as Available ![]() In one of the stranger side effects of the Facebook BGP Routing error outage, the Facebook domain itself was listed in a whois lookup as being available for registration, presumably because the Facebook domain essentially no longer exists. The configuration errors that caused Facebook to go offline appear to have done more than just take it offline, it essentially made Facebook disappear from the Internet. Facebook Seemingly Wiped Off the Internet The problem happened across other Facebook owned sites as well. It’s been determined from multiple sources that the outage is likely due to a major misconfiguration that knocked the sites completely off the Internet in what has been described as an epic and nightmare scenario.Įarlier Monday Facebook began slowing down and completely stopped, with browsers unable to resolve the domain. The outage continued through the afternoon. ![]() Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAPP and Oculus VR went down early on October 4, 2021. ![]()
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