Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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

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?


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @02:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @02:09PM (#1045373)

    The giant pileups are not caused by intention but by the weather instead.

    For all man tries, we can't seem to hold a candle to the power of the earth arrayed against us.