Internet users, obviously, are freaking out. Facebook has said very little about what is actually happening, but the outage is currently seemingly affecting only Facebook and its services. Many experts believe it to be related to issues with internet infrastructure, specifically DNS and BGP.
Short for for Domain Name System, the DNS is a service that allows the internet to run by translating domains such as Facebook.com into IP addresses and viceversa. For some unknown reason, Facebook’s DNS records, as well as BGP records, are gone from the internet. BGP or Border Gateway Protocol is the system that figures out the best route for a packet to travel across the internet. Läs mer
