[m0guz]

Ironic enough; status.fb.com also down.

[awinter-py]

need a status.status.fb.com to indicate the status of the status

and / or an S3 bucket with a json blob the apps can pull to at least tell users 'here's what's up'

[devenvdev]

Reminds me of S3 outage a couple of years ago when AWS status page went down because it was relying on... S3...

[ricardo81]

It uses the same nameservers as facebook.com, same point of failure.

Seems like another poster posted finer details regarding BGP/peering which is ultimately causing the issue.