OP 06 October, 2021 - 09:45 PM
Facebook has blamed a “faulty configuration change” for the widespread outage.
In a statement, the company said: “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.”
“This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” it said.
The “backbone routers” referred to here are known as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routers.
In a statement, the company said: “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.”
“This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” it said.
The “backbone routers” referred to here are known as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routers.
