Facebook-owned properties — including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger — were hit by SWEEPING OUTAGES Monday that left users locked out of the platforms.
The issues started at approximately 11:45 a.m. ET on Monday 10/04/2021 according to DownDetector, users globally. were being hit.
Shortly after noon, Facebooks site sent out a message that read, This site can’t be reached.
Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman, acknowledged the outage on Twitter, saying, We are aware that people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get ALL back to normal as soon as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
Twitter users responded by mocking the company, saying that the world would be better if you just left it all switched off and that We are actually enjoying the lack of disinformation and misinformation.
In a curious twist, by early afternoon, the domain name Facebook.com was showing to be up for sale by Domain Tools.
The organization behind the domain registration was still listed as Facebook Inc. and it’s unclear why the site’s address would be listed for sale.
Facebook reportedly sent internal memo Emails to employees that it appeared to be a DNS issue that is impacting both internal and external access to our tools and apps.
A DNS, or Domain Name System, connects domain names to the right IP addresses so that people can access popular websites. Earlier this year, an outage at a major DNS operator took out huge swaths of the internet briefly.
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs also linked the outages to a DNS issue, tweeting that Facebook’s DNS records got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables.
Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works & all your internal FB-based tools fail? he wrote.
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