Update 3: 'Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,' Facebook said in an update following the outage. Update 2: After a multi-hour outage, Facebook services have begun to return. Facebook have basically deplatformed themselves from their own platform.' 'By not having BGP announcements for your DNS name servers, DNS falls apart = nobody can find you on the Internet,' Kevin Beaumont, former Microsoft's Head of Security Operations Centre, explained on Twitter. Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 started seeing high failure in last 20mins.'

'It appears their BGP routes have been withdrawn from the internet. 'Facebook DNS and other services are down,' Cloudflare SVP Dane Knecht said on Twitter. It appears that there is a Domain Name Server (DNS) issue with Facebook, with no Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes working. The reason for the downtime is not currently known, but signs point to a routing issue. Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and its subsidiary platforms Instagram, Oculus VR, and WhatsApp have gone offline in a global outage.

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