Viral Flash Reports

What Took Down Facebook And Instagram

But Facebook is also ginormous, so in addition to its own DNS, it uses something called Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP. Remember when we talked about how DNS figures out the address of the computer you want to connect to? Well, keeping with the letter metaphor, once you write a letter, address it to your friend and drop it in a mailbox, someone has to figure out all of the logistics of actually getting that letter from one place to another. For the internet, that’s BGP. BGP…