Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram are down here’s what might’ve caused it (early report)

Quick summary of the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outage on Oct 4th, 2021

0:00 Intro & Summary
2:22 Analysis
5:30 wrap up

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[hnasr]

sounds like things are back up and running, Cloudflare wrote up a nice article on the outage

[codedamn]

This video is so fast I’m assuming Hussein did the attack 😂

[vivekshah]

Everytime something is down: search youtube and wait for Hussein's video.

[theacastus]

- "It's not DNS"
- "It won't be DNS"
- "It can't be DNS"
...
- "It is DNS"

[nelsonochoam]

Thats was fast! Love it. I was waiting for your analysis video haha

[DanTheMan-rryg]

Facebook will not post a detailed explanation on what happened, they almost never do.

[sillytechy]

Facebook offices are having a bad Monday case of blues.

[mani_naik]

I was waiting for this one but didn't know this could come so FAST!

[roko]

The moment i realized the outage happened I got so excited because I knew you were gonna upload.

[evolagenda]

Now we've just got to get rid of twitter and the world will be back on track.

[moonshotsilver]

The Great Reset requires it.
The Great Awakening continues.

[TheRn]

Hussein, when you do the detailed analysis, can you please also discuss the possible architectural changes that can prevent this from happening in future?

[brucewayne]

When their services are down, I just hope that it's not an upgrade to be able to collect more data on us 😂😂

[AdityaKumar-pjzs]

Did you already know that there is going to be an outage?😂 You are pretty quick!

[chachitheghost]

From what I've been seeing, the BGP routes that serve Facebook's DNS servers appear to have been withdrawn from the global routing table.

[Jayandhiscents]

I think someone pissed in the servers and Facebook is down forever!! I pray it is🙏

[kenachristopher]

Bad thing's always happen when one man is in charge of everything....
Controlling your habits from a single switch hooked up to the internet...

[alejandraosinagarodriguez]

I'm a little relieved that it was just that, I thought I had to upgrade my phone, I don't have much memory for that anymore :, 3

[FMN]

Thought it was a phone problem, so I restarted my phone but the problem was still there..will be waiting😌

[royadair]

Facebook Headquarters forgot to pay the Electric Bill ..😄😁