Update: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR were back online as of 6:10 pm (ET)Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR are back online

The dust settled after more than 10 hours of Facebook outage on 4/6 yesterday

It calmed down after more than 6 hours of facebook outage As the social media giant's blue website went down, so did Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR

The company blames what it calls "flawed configuration changes""Basically, people's web requests the driver's router is now offline It had the effect of ripples that brought down all aspects of the entire company One source told NBC News that employees could not even enter the conference room because scanning their ID cards would all go through the same system

"Our engineering team learned that the configuration changes to the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers caused this communication disruption problem," Santosh Janardhan, Vice President of Infrastructure at Facebook, said in a blog post "This network traffic disruption has had a cascading effect on the way the data center communicates, causing the service to shut down"

Facebook's extended pause not only prevented aunts and uncles from sharing photos of their babies, but also, according to a New York Times report, Turkish companies were unable to sell items and Colombian nonprofits were unable to communicate with victims of gender-based violence using whatsappfacebookIn com, Facebook's hiatus was announced in 2018/12/1 It would be to show how much a company has taken root in every part of human life That's why they are being asked by antitrust watchers to dissolve the company

Not only that, Frances Haugen, a Facebook whistleblower, is set to testify before Congress today about how the company hid its own internal data about harmFrances Haugen, a facebook whistleblower, will testify before Congress today about how the company is hiding its own internal data about its harm Not only that, she claims that Facebook has consistently picked out profits, even if it means pushing more caustic content

Below, for future reference, I have left the accounting of the update from 10/4 as it is Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp Twitter accounts have been slow to update users, while 3 services have all made short statementsFacebook Instagram and WhatsApp Twitter accounts have been slow to update users, while 3 services have all made short statements Each is a variation that tells the user that they are aware of the problem and that work is being done to address the problem Still, there is an official release on when this stop will end or why the stop occurred

Of course, a flurry of silly memes enjoying facebook and its series of services has begun to round up, and Twitter itself, which many people are active through all this, has now become a joke

As to why the outage occurred, it has not yet been determined However, according to research journalist Brian Krebs, when I spoke to Doug Madory of Kentik, a network observability company, Facebook's DNS records were scraped from the global routing tableFacebook's DNS records have been removed from the global routing table DNS stands for domain name system

How is it the name of the website,などtomsguidecom If DNS is not working, the web browser will not be able to find the website being called

It also appears that Bgp, or Border Gateway Protocol routes, are being pulled from the Internet Cloudflare describes bgp as an Internet postal service If someone wants to access their data over the Internet, it's BGP that tries to find the fastest route possible Facebook instagrammed is a way for your data to access Facebook, Instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrammed instagrams Facebook itself can't communicate within it, not only that Facebooker Facebooker Facebooker facebooker facebooker facebooker facebooker facebooker facebooker facebooker Facebook

According to ArsTechnica, a Reddit user who claims to be a facebooker, network engineers may have been driving a accidentally locked-out configuration change, in which case only technicians at the local data center with local physical access to the router can fix thisFacebooker is a registered user of FacebookservicefacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerfacebookerFacebookfacebooker According to this Reddit user, the suspension is not due to a malicious attack Instagram Facebook Instagram Facebook Facebook Messenger and the ongoing outages of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, including Facebook Workplace, underscore that global outages are one of the major downsides of centralized systems," Matthew Hodgson, CEO of Element, a technology co-founder of Matrix open standard, said in a statement to Tom's Guide Element is a decentralized collaboration and messaging platform, and Matrix is an open source API for decentralized communication using end-to-end encryption

"A centralized app means that all the eggs are in one basket When that basket breaks, all the eggs are crushed We saw the same thing last week when Slack went down"

Hodgson argues that distributed systems are ultimately more reliable because there is no single point of failure

Today's stop is the second longest in Facebook's history The longest occurred in 2019/3/13, which lasted almost 12 hours

There is no official statement on why the blackout occurred, but for Facebook, the news comes shortly after reports of multiple accusationsいFacebookcom/facebookcom/facebookcom/facebookcom/facebookcom/Facebookcom/Facebookcom/Facebookcom That's probably why / #DeleteFacebook is trending on Twitter too

It seems that not only did the delisting of dns throw Facebook off the Internet, but the internal systems of the entire company are downfacebookAt com, it is believed that the delisting of DNS threw Facebook off the Internet According to the Associated Press's Philip Crowther, a Facebook source said: "It's a mayhem here, and all internal systems are also downFacebook "Facebook employees are forced to communicate via text messages and Outlook email systems, according to a source familiar with the matter said facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking facebooking Facebook Not only that, but also the employee's badge is not working, so many people can not even enter the building

60Minutes recently reported that former Facebook employee, Frances Haugen, blew the whistle on the company's internal practices that encouraged the spread of anger-inducing content as a way to stay involved, which, of course, has led to a number of criticisms being lobbied by the company to put benefits above the health of its citizens Facebook, in an internal memo, has denied its platform as being used as a tool that led to the rebellion of Parliament on May 6 of this year Facebook Instagram's latest news comes after the Wall Street Journal reported last month about its own research on Instagram and its impact on younger users Facebook Facebook instagrammed its plans to launch instagrammable for kids, sparking the vigilance of multiple officials, leading to lawsuits by lawyers in 44 states Instagrammable for instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagramsFacebook instagrammed by canceling plans to launch instagrammable instagramsfor kidsInstagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrams