San Francisco – Facebook late omn Monday blamed a major outage across its platforms on configuration changes it made to routers that co-ordinate network traffic between its data centres.
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Facebook App (@facebookapp) October 4, 2021
“This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” Facebook vice president of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan said in a post.
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