Once again, large swaths of the Internet in the United States were affected by a major morning network outage today [November 2]. This time, it was the Tier 1 network service provider Level 3 Communications that was at the center of the problem, which disrupted parts of the Internet's backbone. But for the moment, it does not appear that the outage was triggered by a denial of service attack or other network attack, like the attack on DNS provider Dyn on October 21.
[...] A Level 3 spokesperson confirmed that the company's networks had been restored to normal function by 1600 Greenwich Mean Time (noon US Eastern Time) but said that no other information was available yet.
The outage had no major impact on major streaming services that use Level 3, including Netflix and the HBO Go mobile application. But it did affect some customers' voice and Internet services. Level 3 suffered another brief outage a month ago, caused by a human error.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @12:46AM
Oh look it's another Call of Duty player. Please tell us how you support Our Troops, you approve of the continued existence of the Department of Homeland Security, you voted for more Terrorism, and you believe every traveler should be anally raped by TSA agents.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday November 04 2016, @12:49AM
I relax playing video games. What does that have to do with anything you mentioned?
Oh, right. You're an AC, I should ignore you.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 04 2016, @01:02AM
Call of Duty is a terrorism simulator and a recruitment tool, you tool. By playing terrorism simulators, you implicitly approve of the politics of the Bush Doctrine: America fucking the world for profit.