People suffered a lot due to the closure of Facebook
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram stopped working worldwide due to server down at around 9.30 pm Indian time. Due to technical fault, people had to face a lot of problems and the work of many companies came to a standstill. #WhatsAppDown and #FacebookDown also started trending on social media. Facebook and Instagram remained closed for 6 hours and resumed at 3.24 PM IST. Similarly, WhatsApp was shut down for 7 hours and then restarted at 4.19 PM IST.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all owned by Facebook. So the servers of all three are also interconnected. That’s why even a few too many changes affect all three. However, the cause of the problem is not yet clear. The server shut down Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram due to a DNS failure. Due to a DNS failure, their users’ internet ‘root’ to access Facebook was interrupted. This is because DNS translates any website into an IP address and delivers it to the user on the page he wants to open.
With the failure of Facebook’s DNS, experts believe that at first glance, it seems that all of Facebook’s BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) have been turned off, causing DNS to fail and Facebook worldwide. , WhatsApp and Instagram users have turned away from the Facebook page. DNS works with BGP route. However, no official information has been received about the reasons for the suspension of BGP.
With the failure of Facebook’s DNS, experts believe that at first glance, it seems that all of Facebook’s BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) has been turned off, causing DNS to fail and the world wide. In the U.S. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram users have turned away from the Facebook page. . DNS works with BGP route. However, no official information has been received about the reasons for the suspension of BGP. Loss of millions from Facebook The server of the world’s largest networking site Facebook went down for about 6 hours on Monday night. Its cost to Facebook’s owner Mark Zuckerberg was 7 7 billion i.e. about Rs 52,000 crore. Then he slipped one step down the list of billionaires.