twitter Facebook Outage: Someone nuked the DNS A and AAA records for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

[iamjanco]

It's all over the 'net now. Wouldn't be surprised if it somehow ties into to that whistleblower who came out of the closet the other day.

 

As per the subject title (I ran the whois for facebook.com a few moments ago and verified the nuked dn records):

 

 

 

Edited October 4, 2021 by UltraMega

[UltraMega]

I wouldn't be upset if facebook somehow got totally wiped out personally. 

 

Here is an article about it as well:

Facebook and Some of Its Apps Go Down Simultaneously

 

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Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down at the same time Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage.
 

The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company’s family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — showed outage reports, according to the site downdetector.com, which monitors web traffic and site activity.
 

Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world’s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare. The company has been trying to integrate the underlying technical infrastructure of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram for several years.
 

Two Facebook security team members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said it was unlikely that a cyberattack caused the issues. That is because the technology behind the apps was still different enough that one hack was not likely to affect all of them at once.

 

[ENTERPRISE]

Mark is gonna be angry. 

 

[iamjanco]

Wouldn't be surprised if Mark was somehow behind the outage given what else is in the news 

 

Wouldn't bother me though if the change was permanent

 

(...and suddenly millions of retired boomers are having to speak to their spouses for the first time in years)

Edited October 4, 2021 by iamjanco

[ENTERPRISE]

Just now, iamjanco said:

Wouldn't be surprised if Mark was somehow behind the outage given the what else is in the news 

 

Wouldn't bother me though if the change was permanent

 

(...and suddenly millions of retired boomers are having to speak to their spouses for the first time in years)

 

Maybe quit social media and everyone join EHW lol.

[GanjaSMK]

15 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

 

Maybe quit social media and everyone join EHW lol.

 

THIS IS THE WAY

[mouacyk]

1 hour ago, GanjaSMK said:

 

THIS IS THE WAY

Let's go.

[Sir Beregond]

We had out own multi-app outage today so it was funny hearing of FB going down at the same time. I would be ok if that one stayed down though.

[UltraMega]

So this was just an error, not a hack or anything, it they right? 

[GanjaSMK]

I get the feeling that something isn't in error, something is amiss.  If it was error, they'd have fixed it already.  Something else going on IMHO....

[Diffident]

And today the world is a better place.....

[iamjanco]

Looks like it's starting to come back to life again. This was a tad interesting though (who knows what really happened):

 

[ENTERPRISE]

6 hours ago, iamjanco said:

Looks like it's starting to come back to life again. This was a tad interesting though (who knows what really happened):

 

Either it was an internal error..or they are just saying that to cover up a breach. Not to get all conspiracy theory but it really wouldn't surprise me at all these days.

[Snakecharmed]

I've come to realize Facebook probably has more value to me as a tool to keep up with local and Internet businesses than a friend network where people virtue signal, rant about crap that doesn't affect their actual daily lives, and deliberately test the limits of Facebook's censors all day. Even the car groups I'm part of kind of suck compared to forums.

 

So at first I was kind of glad that people got off it for a day, but then I realized the platform is at least moderately useful although not indispensable for keeping up with some of my projects.

[ENTERPRISE]

On 05/10/2021 at 15:26, Snakecharmed said:

I've come to realize Facebook probably has more value to me as a tool to keep up with local and Internet businesses than a friend network where people virtue signal, rant about crap that doesn't affect their actual daily lives, and deliberately test the limits of Facebook's censors all day. Even the car groups I'm part of kind of suck compared to forums.

 

So at first I was kind of glad that people got off it for a day, but then I realized the platform is at least moderately useful although not indispensable for keeping up with some of my projects.

I use it for contacts and promotions...and to see some funnies now and then. I do not really participate like others do.