CenturyLink outage led to a 3.5% drop in global web traffic:
US internet service provider CenturyLink has suffered a major technical outage on Sunday after a misconfiguration in one of its data centers created havoc all over the internet.
Due to the technical nature of the outage -- involving both firewall and BGP routing -- the error spread outward from CenturyLink's network and also impacted other internet service providers, ending up causing connectivity problems for many more other companies.
The list of tech giants who had services go down because of the CenturyLink outage includes big names like Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft (Xbox Live), EA, Blizzard, Steam, Discord, Reddit, Hulu, Duo Security, Imperva, NameCheap, OpenDNS, and many more.
Cloudflare, which was also severely impacted, said CenturyLink's outward-propagating issue led to a 3.5% drop in global internet traffic, which would make this one of the biggest internet outages ever recorded.
If someone can cause this much chaos accidentally, how much damage could someone deliberately cause?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:04PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:53PM
I thought Facebook / Twitter would be the death of the internet. But the net seems to have survived them.
Maybe you could be right.
In hindsight it is astonishing how many protocols were designed with the assumption of trust and lack of evil.
Remember when email, ftp and telnet were all in the clear?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.