However, they also said that sabotage could also be a possibility, as per Reuters. All of Facebook’s main products Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and the big blue app of Facebook were inaccessible to at least some users around 3 p.m. A BGP is like the internet's navigation system.Īccording to security experts, an internal mistake could have caused the disruption. Murch said the core issue was that, "Facebook has withdrawn the so-called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route that contains the IP addresses of its DNS nameservers", as per The Wired. Troy Mursch, the chief research officer of cyberthreat intelligence company Bad Packets, said, “Facebook's outage appears to be caused by DNS however that's a just symptom of the problem.”
However, in this case, something more serious could have caused the issue. Downdetector only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher. While the company didn’t reveal the exact reason, it did assert that there was a technical issue. Though, WhatsApp is claiming that the service was only down for 45 minutes. It is common for some problems to be reported throughout the day. As per Downdetector, the issue started at around 10:40PM in India and prevented WhatsApp users from sending or receiving messages on the service for more than an hour. This chart shows a view of problem reports submitted in the past 24 hours compared to the typical volume of reports by time of day.
They can happen for a number of technical reasons and are relatively easy to resolve. Instagram outages reported in the last 24 hours. DNS mishaps are quite common and most likely the reason behind the outage of any website. People flocked to Twitter for updates, as well as memes making fun of the situation. Facebook blamed the major outage on router work, AFP reported.Įarlier, The Wired suggested that the outage could have been due to its Domain Name System (DNS) becoming unreachable.ĭNS can be seen as the phone book of the internet. Iran has curbed access to social media networks Instagram and WhatsApp amid protests over the death of a woman in police custody, according to residents and internet watchdog NetBlocks. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger suffered a widespread outage on Monday.
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