Facebook blames networking issues, not a cyberattack, for long downtime
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp largely returned to the internet late Monday following a six hour-long outage that outsiders suggested, without evidence, was the result of a cyberattack. In an Oct. 4 statement, the company apologized for the long downtime, blaming the matter on networking issues. Configuration changes “on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers” interrupted communication, Facebook said, causing a “cascading effect” that disrupted the flow of communication. The same issue also halted Facebook’s internal systems, further delaying the recovery process. Independent security experts suggested from the beginning that the company’s Domain Name System, the technological protocol by which connected devices locate one another on the internet, was somehow to blame. “We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change,” Santosh Janarhan, vice president of Facebook Infrastructure, said in a statement. “We also […]
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