"Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. However, they also said that sabotage could also be a possibility, as per Reuters.
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 Murch said the core issue was that, "Facebook has withdrawn the so-called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route that contains the IP addresses of its DNS nameservers", as per The Wired. New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) WhatsApp went down for a brief period on Wednesday morning as users in India and worldwide were unable to send or receive messages for couple of. 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. They can happen for a number of technical reasons and are relatively easy to resolve. YouTube, Google, and Pokemon Go are also among the sites affected by current. The revelations have ignited a firestorm for Facebook in Washington. Facebook shares suffered their worst day in nearly a year, closing at 326.31 on Monday, down 4.87 per cent for the day amid a broad sell-off of tech stocks. DNS mishaps are quite common and most likely the reason behind the outage of any website. DownDetector shows a severe spike in outage reports for Snapchat, Twitter, Xbox Live, and several other services. On Sunday, a whistleblower revealed her identity and accused the company of putting profit over the safety of its users. 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.
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