{"id":8176,"date":"2021-10-04T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1368863"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:39:21","slug":"facebook-whatsapp-instagram-and-messenger-are-all-down-update-theyre-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=8176","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger are all DOWN (Update: they\u2019re back)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F09%2Fimage.jpeg&amp;signature=103634c6f8ca62259e603f0195098742\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Update: All services are back online after an outage that lasted over five hours. To the 3.5 billion users who depend on the apps, Facebook says \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.fb.com\/2021\/10\/04\/networking-traffic\/outage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">sorry<\/a>.\u201d The company states its engineering teams confirmed that the root cause of the outage was a \u201cfaulty configuration change.\u201d It also claims no user data was compromised during the outage. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In news that will surely be greeted warmly at Twitter HQ, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger have all gone down in a huge global outage.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of users have reported issues accessing the four Facebook-owned platforms, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">DownDetector website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of problems began flooding in at around 17.30 CET. Since then, many users have been receiving error messages when they try to access the services. The issues appear to have been caused by a Domain Name Server (DNS) failure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.595015576324\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ThousandEyes tests can confirm that at 15:40 UTC on October 4, the Facebook application became unreachable due to DNS failure. Facebook\u2019s authoritative DNS nameservers became unreachable at that time. The issue is still ongoing as of 17:02 UTC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zNmZWTxEUo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/zNmZWTxEUo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ThousandEyes (@thousandeyes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thousandeyes\/status\/1445073333448437761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a tweet, Facebook said that it was aware of the issues and was \u201cworking to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.\u201d Instagram and WhatsApp both made similar announcements on \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3449781659389\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We\u2019re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Facebook App (@facebookapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/facebookapp\/status\/1445060225468297216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"c-entry-content \" readability=\"28.24043715847\">\n<p>The outage caps a rough start to the week for Facebook, which was already reeling from <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen\">a whistleblower\u2019s accusations<\/a> that the company consistently \u201cchooses profits over safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger-all-down-outage\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: All services are back online after an outage that lasted over five hours. To the 3.5 billion users who depend on the apps, Facebook says \u201csorry.\u201d The company states its engineering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}