Restored now and working here now (after 3-4 hrs of outage). Location: India anurag@desktop ~> dig www.facebook.com a ; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> www.facebook.com a ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56238 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.facebook.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.facebook.com. 3396 IN CNAME star-mini.c10r.facebook.com. star-mini.c10r.facebook.com. 59 IN A 157.240.239.35 ;; Query time: 12 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) ;; WHEN: Tue Oct 05 05:27:56 IST 2021 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 90 anurag@desktop ~> anurag@desktop ~> ping -c 5 www.facebook.com PING star-mini.c10r.facebook.com (157.240.239.35) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-02-del1.facebook.com (157.240.239.35): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=6.32 ms 64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-02-del1.facebook.com (157.240.239.35): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=6.03 ms 64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-02-del1.facebook.com (157.240.239.35): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=6.31 ms 64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-02-del1.facebook.com (157.240.239.35): icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=6.28 ms 64 bytes from edge-star-mini-shv-02-del1.facebook.com (157.240.239.35): icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=6.27 ms --- star-mini.c10r.facebook.com ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.032/6.241/6.320/0.106 ms anurag@desktop ~> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:36 AM Bob Harman - Huntersville via Outages < outages@outages.org> wrote:

Appears to be a DNS issue for both Facebook and WhatsApp.

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