https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-wh... "A bit later, Cloudflare VP Dane Knecht reported that all BGP<https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/glossary/what-is-bgp/> routes for Facebook had been pulled. With no BGP routes into Facebook's network, Facebook's own DNS servers would be unreachable-as would the missing application servers for Facebook-owned Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR." Holy cow. From: Outages <outages-bounces@outages.org> On Behalf Of Dovid Bender via Outages Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 9:06 AM To: James Lawrie <outages@jdlawrie.co.uk> Cc: OUTAGES Mailing List <outages@outages.org> Subject: Re: [outages] WhatsApp down? EXTERNAL - This message was sent from outside the company. Please do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the source of this email and know the content is safe. Facebook/Instagram/Whats app all down. Seems to be a DNS issue. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:00 PM James Lawrie via Outages <outages@outages.org<mailto:outages@outages.org>> wrote: No connection at all from my side and twitter seems to confirm _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org<mailto:Outages@outages.org> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpuck.nether.net%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Foutages&data=04%7C01%7Cmbf%40hyperionpartners.net%7C74c1e0c365fa4df26a2908d987602cb5%7Ca8ac822fddd14e2c9fc162ba9c9491e2%7C1%7C0%7C637689669410383364%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=cdHILIfHqw%2BqHjOcCAtq%2FgPGi9sCigcEGR5xGrfi7BM%3D&reserved=0>