[Info-vax] Facebook service outage

[Henry Crun]

On 04/10/2021 23:54, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Login with FB, etc., are all offline.
> 
> The Facebook IP address space and all its services are inaccessible.
> 
> Reportedly, this outage is due to erroneous BGP routing announcements.
> 
> Reportedly, internal access including badges and badge readers and building and door access controls are all offline, 
> and remote access to their peer routers is also all offline.
> 
> This looks to be one of the biggest service outages around, and with a detail—the BGP routing announcements—that y'all 
> might want to consider within your business continuity and business recovery plans.
> 
> 

some explanations at
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-took-facebook-down-major-global-outage-drags-on/

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