massive facebook outage presently

Mon Oct 4 17:42:01 UTC 2021

Yes, embedded ISP CDN’s show a huge drop

-Aaron

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+aaron1=gvtc.com at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke
Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 11:22 AM
To: George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>; nanog at nanog.org list <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: massive facebook outage presently

Considering the massive impact of this it would be interesting to see some traffic graphs from ISPs that have PNIs with Facebook, or high volume peering sessions across an IX, showing traffic to FB falling off a cliff. 

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:16 PM George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com <mailto:george.herbert at gmail.com> > wrote:

And WhatsApp and Instagram.  Twitter users nationwide agree anecdotally.

What I’m getting is DNS failure. 

-George 

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On Oct 4, 2021, at 9:07 AM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com <mailto:eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> > wrote:

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

Normally not worth mentioning random $service having an outage here, but this will undoubtedly generate a large volume of customer service calls. 

Appears to be failure in DNS resolution.

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