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From about 11 o’clock last night, Facebook and its Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus and other services began to have large-scale usage problems on a global scale. It wasn’t until this morning that these apps finally came back online one after another. During the nearly 7-hour repair process, Facebook also encountered difficulties such as the inability to open corporate tools such as email and Workplace.Even the door card system of the server room was also affected by the disaster. It is said that maintenance personnelHad to use a cutting machineOnly then was able to enter the server security cage.
During the major downtime, many security experts speculated that the root cause of the problem may be the Border Gateway Protocol (Border Gateway Protocol). In a follow-up official statement, Facebook’s engineering team wrote: “We have discovered that the configuration change of the backbone router that coordinates the network traffic between the data centers caused the communication interruption. This interruption affects the communication between the data centers. This caused a collateral impact and brought our service to a halt.” At the same time, it also emphasized that the problem was entirely caused by a “configuration error” and there is currently no evidence of user data leakage.
After this incident, Facebook’s stock price fell sharply, not surprisingly, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s value suddenly shrank by billions of dollars. Not long ago, a former employee jumped out and accused Facebook that it would only “put its interests above safety”. Coupled with the negative impact of the big downtime, Zuckerberg has really been in trouble recently…