It's how the name of a website, such as, is translated into a raw IP address. But according to investigative journalist Brian Krebs (opens in new tab), when speaking to Doug Madory of Kentik, a network observability company, Facebook's DNS records were withdrawn from global routing tables.ĭNS stands for Domain Name System. Still, there's official release on when this outage will end or why the outage has occurred.Īs to why the outage has occurred, that has yet to be determined. Each is a variation of acknowledging the issue and telling users that work is being done to address the issue. While the Twitter accounts for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were slow to update users, all three services have since put out short statements. We're still waiting on an official statement from Facebook regarding the outage. ET, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back online. According to the New York Times (opens in new tab), Facebook employees' badges aren't even working, meaning they can't enter the building.According to Philip Crowther (opens in new tab) of the Associated Press, it's 'mayhem' over at Facebook.According to investigative journalist Brian Krebs (opens in new tab), when speaking to Doug Madory of Kentik, a network observability company, Facebook's DNS records were withdrawn from global routing tables.Facebook has not given a reason for the outage, but has tweeted (opens in new tab) that its working on getting the issue resolved.The outage is now closing in on the seven-hour mark. ET (opens in new tab), Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR went down.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage: latest updates Not only that, but she claims that Facebook consistently chose profit, even if it meant pushing more caustic content.īelow we've left an accounting of our updates from October 4 intact for future reference. Not only that, a Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, is set to t estify in front of Congress (opens in new tab) today about the way the company has hid its own internal data about its harms.

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