

It has been over an hour that these services. These services include WhatsApp, the main Facebook app, Instagram, Oculus, and also Messenger. While the BGP snafu may explain why Facebook’s DNS has failed, the company hasn’t yet commented on why the BGP routes were withdrawn early on Oct. Facebook services are down globally including in India. Users began to report their inability to connect to the service for a few hours in countries like the US and UK. Minutes before Facebook’s platforms stopped loading, public records show that a large number of changes were made to Facebook’s BGP routes, according to Cloudflare Inc.’s chief technology officer, John Graham-Cumming, in a Tweet. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger suffered from an outage that resulted in the services being unavailable for a few hours, according to outage tracking website, Downdetector.

When a user enters data in the internet, BGP determines the best available paths that data could travel. If DNS is the internet’s phone book, BGP is its postal service. appears to have its origins in the Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP.

That could happen if the system that grants access is also connected to the same domain. Users on Twitter and Reddit also indicate that employees at the company’s Menlo Park, California, campus were unable to access offices and conference rooms that required a security badge. Original Story: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all currently down as Facebooks network of sites suddenly went offline earlier today. Not only are Facebook’s primary platforms down, but so too are some of their internal applications, including the company’s own email system.
