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CenturyLink Outage Led to a 3.5% Drop in Global Web Traffic

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the was-anything-of-value-lost? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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?

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:12PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:12PM (#1044990)

    how much damage could someone deliberately cause?

    I've heard that AT&T is pulling the plug on DSL in some locations this month. Really scary time to have your internet service shut off.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:54PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:54PM (#1044997) Journal

    Is AT&T pulling the plug as a public service, or are they replacing it with something worse?

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    • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:20PM

      by SomeGuy (5632) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:20PM (#1045039)

      or are they replacing it with something worse?

      Something more expensive. Perfect time to blackmail people in to paying more.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @09:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @09:56PM (#1045119)

    How the fuck did that get moderated as flamebait? Some people are dependent on DSL.