Reason behind WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram outage explained
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Reason behind WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram outage explained
The outages on Monday at Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram occurred because of a problem in the company’s domain name system, a relatively unknown – at least to the masses – but crucial component of the internet.
That’s apparently what happened inside Facebook – but at a scale that’s temporarily crippled the entire Facebook ecosystem.
The problem at Facebook Inc. appears to have its origins in the Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP. If DNS is the internet’s phone book, BGP is its postal service.
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WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook down globally
Facebook and its owned applications WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger are reporting loading issues worldwide due to severe outgage as several users complained.
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“Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” a message on the Facebook website said when trying to load. Meanwhile, the social-media giant’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 14,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 3,000 users.
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