Where does the failure encountered by Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp come from?
When we tried to access Facebook on the Web this Monday evening, October 4, the message "This site is inaccessible. Could not find the IP address of the facebook.com server" was displayed in the browser. Sign that things were evolving and that Facebook had undoubtedly taken control of the situation, the message "Sorry, something went wrong" could be read at the same address around midnight this Tuesday, October 5, 2021 before the Facebook home page finally reappears a few minutes later.
The Facebook outage affected many of the group's services and platforms. Messenger, the messaging app linked to Facebook, but also the Whatsapp messaging service were also stranded on Monday evening. The Instagram app, bought by Facebook a few years ago, was also part of the down services. Even Oculus, Facebook's virtual reality platform, was down. An earthquake when we know that Facebook's application network has an average of more than 2.7 billion daily users.