[MSN] Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, three of the most-popular websites and apps in the world, were knocked offline Monday in a major internet outage.The outage occurred around 12 p.m. EST. The three products are all owned and operated by Facebook. Several other products that are owned and operated by Facebook were also affected.
According to The Verge, the issue appears to be a DNS (server) problem.
"We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience," Facebook communications exec Andy Stone said on Twitter.
| From NN2N1, with Fred’s comments: |
ENGINEERS CAN'T EVEN BADGE IN, TO GET IN TO FIX IT.....
Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site.We guessed that.
We cannot connect to the server at www.facebook.com.
It's back up and running now.
If that address is correct, here are three other things you can try:
Try again later.
Check your network connection.
If you are connected but behind a firewall, check that Firefox has permission to access the Web.