news Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp All Down - "caused by a DNS (domain name server) fail"

[dncafe]

"Global users are experiencing outages on Facebook, including all social networks the company owns, which include Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. When navigating to these websites, a server error will appear — Instagram shows a “5xx server error,” which indicates that this is an issue with Facebook’s servers. Users are also unable to send messages or load new content on the mobile apps for these platforms. Even Oculus, Facebook’s virtual reality platform, is experiencing outages, according to a tweet the platform posted.

It appears that the outage is caused by a DNS (domain name server) fail — this is the naming structure that forms the web’s infrastructure. So, if you try to navigate to facebook.com right now, the internet won’t know where to find facebook.com."

Full Article: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/04/facebook-messenger-instagram-whatsapp-are-all-down/

 

[D Haynes]

Would do the world a favour if they never came back on line again imo.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I think people will get more productive work done today, maybe?

 

[Rhinnnn]

Facebook.com is also listed for sale at Uni

https://uniregistry.com/market/domain/facebook.com?d=facebook.com

 

[D Haynes]

What were you born in the 1800s? What'sApp & Instagram can be & are very useful to billions of people. It's not about FaceBook alone

I was born in the 80s. They don't offer anyone anything they can't do in other ways kinder to their mental health.

 

[D Haynes]

Well I think we can all agree that Facebook aren't the good guys.

People became too dependent on this s.t.n.st network worldwide, so some good people may suffer for a while as well from lack of communication... Who is responsible for this: good guys, or bad guys: I don't know, but probably good guys are doing it.

 

[Future Sensors]

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/

 

[Future Sensors]

Just another reason to stop using FB to log in to other sites.

https://blog.dashlane.com/login-with-facebook/

https://www.wired.com/story/security-risks-of-logging-in-with-facebook/

 

[DomainNature]

Finally good news.
Hope to get more sales now that FB is down and people will think to create their own websites.

 

[Future Sensors]

 

[iAdam]

Make sure you tell your gf that whatsapp is down, otherwise she might think you are with another woman.

 

[sivadomains]

 

[Future Sensors]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

 

[dncafe]

Well I think we can all agree that Facebook aren't the good guys.

That goes for all the top "social media" sites of today. They're certainly not a democracy like they try to appear to be and are in bed with you know who.

 

[AboGamil]

Would do the world a favour if they never came back on line again imo.

i hope so

 

[johname]

Whistleblower against facebook on 60 min tv show last night, then the biggest FB outage since 2008 next morning, feels connected

 

[sivadomains]

f8.com
i.org
facebook.com
instagram.com
WhatsApp
workplace.com
oculus.com


all are down.

 

[seomotionz]

Well I think we can all agree that Facebook aren't the good guys.

Well everyone one knows it. What actually FB and twitter is. Sometimes I feels like that their majority populous aren't even real people. You can't argue with them through reasoning. Hell !! you won't be able to make a straight conversation. Even if you are lucky enough to create a meaningful dialogue. The moment you provide them with evidence that backs your argument. They will blatantly start calling you names.

I think people will get more productive work done today, maybe?

We can surely hope that !! Sir, can't we?!

Trumps' revenge,..or Putin (no difference). Search for:

"Stop Promoting Pedophilia or I’ll Crush You"

at duck.com

Ha Ha !!

 

[Sutruk]

I wrote the way how you can completely bypass DNS.
If the issue is on DNS, the method I wrote above solves it perfectly.
It's a well known solution in Linux World.

And it's also a well known solution in Windows World

 

[MadAboutDomains]

@iTesla Starting my own one: Feetbook. The only problem is I think it may attract the wrong people

Also the lack of potential footfall.

 

[lock]

Would do the world a favour if they never came back on line again imo.

I would love to just see the reactions of influencers if all redirected to another project.

 

[Rhinnnn]

What'sApp & Instagram can be & are very useful to billions of people.

They can be useful, yes. And the current outage all across these services only shows that it's bad that Facebook bought them.

 

[Future Sensors]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage

 

[Future Sensors]

“Today’s outage brought our reliance on Facebook — and its properties like WhatsApp and Instagram — into sharp relief,” said Brooke Erin Duffy, a professor of communications at Cornell University. “The abruptness of today’s outage highlights the staggering level of precarity that structures our increasingly digitally mediated work economy.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-down.html

 

[Future Sensors]

I wrote the way how you can completely bypass DNS.
If the issue is on DNS, the method I wrote about solves it perfectly.
It's a well known solution in Linux World.

If the webserver is running on the same IP in your hosts file, you can always access that server without DNS. But if the webserver (http server) is down, you can never browse those websites.

But it was not relevant for the Facebook outage, the topic of this thread.