Also, Linode is planning some server reboots over the next week or so. We will try to give advance notice and keep downtime to a minimum.
Update: Everything seems to have quieted down. Many many thanks to NotSanguine for jumping in and lending his expertise to help identify and isolate where things were borked.
Indications are that a bad BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) route was published causing a relatively small AS (Autonomous System) to have all traffic to/from a large fraction of the internet attempt to go through its routers.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Thexalon on Monday June 24 2019, @11:22PM
As a Linux advocate, I am happy to see any countermeasures to DOS deployed widely!
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.