Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer world outage – It’s too early to say something it seems to be a problem with Domain Name System (DNS): RAM RESEARCH CENTER

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are crashing for users around the world, said the social media giant on Monday as it works to restore the services.

A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc crippled several websites in July. Reuters could not confirm whether Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp was affected by the problem, but an error message on Facebook’s website suggested that the problem was related to the Domain Name System (DNS). A similar outage by cloud company akamai crippled several websites in July when it shut down for several hours.

Thousands of users reported on Monday that they could not access services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. More than 20,000 people reported that WhatsApp was not working for them. Social media users reported on Twitter that they had been denied access to social media services.

In a massive action on Monday night, several users complained that WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram servers had failed. The messaging app WhatsApp is unable to send and receive messages while messaging platforms Instagram and Facebook are also facing outages.

Users complained that they could not connect to WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram servers, meaning they could not send or receive messages from their contacts on the platforms. Several users, including those in India, we’re unable to access WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook on Android and iOS platforms. Users also reported not having access to Facebook in California, New York, and Europe.

The company claims that the problem is related to the websites and apps’ server connection. It is too early to say, but it seems to be a problem with the DNS server.

WhatsApp has over 14,000 users, while Messenger has over 3,000. “We are working on it, we are going to fix it,” the company said on its website, explaining that everything was being tried to load.

Social media users took to Twitter to complain about the outage as they tried to restart their Internet connection but were unable to access the Facebook-owned platform. Facebook shares fell more than 5 percent after a tough day for the social media giant. Twitter users made # InstagramDown and # FacebookDown a trend on Oculus, Facebook’s virtual reality gaming platform, in response to the outage.

Users around the world took to Twitter to share their views on the issue. Other Facebook-owned services, including its own sites such as Instagram and Messenger, experienced the same problem.

In many regions, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram – parent company Facebook’s most popular apps – are experiencing outages and do not appear to work on the web or their respective smartphone apps. Downdetector reported a rapid rise in the number of cases on October 4 where WhatsApp was not working for people in some regions. According to 9to5Mac, the outages affect all platforms and services that use Facebook login.

In June, over a thousand people reported outages in countries such as Mexico, South America, Morocco, the United States, Brazil, and Bolivia. The initial reports came as the hashtag # FacebookDown was trending on Twitter and users reported problems. Two Facebook platforms also had outages in March: Instagram on March 30 and Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp on March 19.

NetBlock, which tracks Internet outages and their impact, estimates that the outage has cost the global economy 160 million dollars (117 million euros), and Facebook’s share price is down more than five percent. The Facebook outages occur regularly and usually have a huge impact – not least because they affect three of the world’s largest apps. The exact cause of the outage is unclear, but Dane Knecht, senior vice president of cloud security firm Cloudflare said that Facebook’s border gateway protocol (BGP) route is used by networks to deliver Internet traffic to and from the Internet.

What is not unknown is the length of the outage, which lasted for hours at the time of writing, which is rare, and it is not clear how long the most popular pages on Facebook will be out of action.

If it is a similar problem, it is likely to affect the same set of Facebook-owned apps and services. The latest outage was due to a bug in the Domain Name System (DNS) for Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp, so we can’t say for sure if it’s related. Many services were affected last time, but this outage appears to be limited to the Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat apps at the time of writing.

According to Dylan Byers, senior reporter for Puck News, Facebook said in an internal memo to employees that it appeared that the DNS problem affected internal and external access to Facebook tools and apps. We are working on it and we will fix it as soon as possible, “it said in a statement on Facebook’s website. The Social Instagram post was accompanied by a tweet: ‘Instagram friends, I’m in a bit of trouble right now, and you guys are in trouble with an Instagram friend

 

source: RAM RESEARCH CENTER