The big three are down, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp

[Skyrocket21]

There's a major outage on these three platforms that started at 5pm, I have no idea why, what are people doing with all the extra spare time, I guess this could cause some major issues for important communication if it continues?

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-a...

[Gareth79]

Skyrocket21 said:

I guess this could cause some major issues for important communication if it continues?

All the gossip at the Tory conference!

[g3org3y]

Skyrocket21 said:

I have no idea why

Covid innit.

[Eric Mc]

They've run out of fuel.

[Simbu]

All owned by the same company (Facebook). My idle speculation reckons it will either be a root certificate problem, or DNS issue. Either way, world productivity has just jumped a bit!

[DeejRC]

Dunno why, but I bet Boris and Brexit are blamed before 6…

[bitchstewie]

Appears to be DNS related - nothing sinister from the looks of it.

[JagLover]

The nation's teenagers emerge blinking into the light, looking at the faces of their families for the first time in months.

[juice]

Won't someone think of the influencers ?

[Cold]

[Scobblelotcher]

It's always DNS

https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/facebook.com

Suspect it's another faulty change, although it's interesting it happened after the whistleblower went public.

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-instagram-do...

[s1962a]

don't they have disaster recovery plans for this sort of eventuality?

[bitchstewie]

A bit of BGP difficulty thrown in for good measure apparently.

[Gary C]

Skyrocket21 said:

this could cause some major issues for important communication if it continues?

Like what ?

[CraigyMc]

bhstewie said:

Appears to be DNS related - nothing sinister from the looks of it.

There aren't currently DNS records for facebook.com so that's what I think too -- although if you need to take the whole thing offline for reasons, it can be cleaner than changing all your outbound routing to "nowhere".

[CraigyMc]

Gary C said:

Skyrocket21 said:

this could cause some major issues for important communication if it continues?

Like what ?

Farmville.

[s1962a]

coincidentally bitcoin seems to be rallying at the same time..

[Abdul Abulbul Amir]

g3org3y said:

Skyrocket21 said:

I have no idea why

Covid innit.

Brexit probably



Or Boris.

[Randy Winkman]

[Eric Mc]

Abdul Abulbul Amir said:

g3org3y said:

Skyrocket21 said:

I have no idea why

Covid innit.

Brexit probably



Or Boris.

Climate change - don't forget climate change.