Facebook says 'faulty configuration change' to blame for 6-hour outage

Facebook late Monday apologized for a six-hour outage that impacted the company's flagship social network, as well as ancillary services, blaming the downtime on a "faulty configuration change."

Facebook and its related services, including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR, went offline at around 11:30 a.m. Eastern and remained inaccessible for about six hours. Subsequent reports suggested that a bad Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update was to blame for the outage, and a new statement from Facebook seemingly confirms the theory.In a blog post, Facebook VP of Engineering and Infrastructure Santosh Janardhan apologized for the "inconvenience" and explained that router configuration changes caused an interruption between its data centers.

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