[outages] Facebook Down

[Jürgen Botz]

OK, found the original Tweet by @jgrahamc, the CTO of Clouflare, so now
it is a reliable source...
https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445068309288951820

I would say that this is more likely some kind of attack rather than
an error by FB engineers.

- Jürgen

On 10/4/21 16:21, Jürgen Botz wrote:
> It's worth noting that all these emails to the list are arriving on my
> (independent) mail server late and out of order.  Unlikely to be
> coincidence.
> 
> Somebody on Twitter said that the CEO of Cloudflare said that all of
> Facebook's BGP routes "had been withdrawn", but that Tweet wasn't
> from any particularly reliable source.  Still the problem does seem
> go further than just DNS for Facebook properties.
> 
> -j
> 
> On 10/4/21 13:10, Arthur Lockman via Outages wrote:
>> Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all appear to be down.
>>
>> ➜ nslookup facebook.com <http://facebook.com>
>> ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 1.1.1.1, trying next server
>> Server:1.0.0.1
>> Address:1.0.0.1#53
>>
>> ** server can't find facebook.com <http://facebook.com>: SERVFAIL
>>
>> ➜ nslookup whatsapp.com <http://whatsapp.com>
>> ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 1.0.0.1, trying next server
>> Server:1.1.1.1
>> Address:1.1.1.1#53
>>
>> ** server can't find whatsapp.com <http://whatsapp.com>: SERVFAIL
>>
>> Seems like it’s DNS once again.
>>
>> *- Arthur Lockman (he/him)*
>>
>>> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:46 AM, Matt Hoppes via Outages 
>>> <outages at outages.org <mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing Facebook down?   Seems to be offline here in 
>>> Pennsylvania.. started with error messages now DNS errors.
>>>
>>> Seeing lots of errors on Instagram, QuickBooks, Whatsapp, Amazon.
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