Huge internet outage

[dvs_dave]

So this happened earlier today. Centurylink ISP went down and the ensuing cascade knocked out much of the internet across the US for a few hours. Our internet went down here in Chicago during this time also. How did it affect things in Europe?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/tech/internet-outag...

Seems amazing that this can happen, and the safeguards designed to route around such failures clearly all failed also. It’ll be interesting to see what the actual cause was and how it’ll be fixed as it seems like a huge flaw that’s ripe for abuse.

[C2Red]

dvs_dave said:

So this happened earlier today. Centurylink ISP went down and the ensuing cascade knocked out much of the internet across the US for a few hours. Our internet went down here in Chicago during this time also. How did it affect things in Europe?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/tech/internet-outag...

Seems amazing that this can happen, and the safeguards designed to route around such failures clearly all failed also. It’ll be interesting to see what the actual cause was and how it’ll be fixed as it seems like a huge flaw that’s ripe for abuse.

I’d say imho and experience; that we lose a Centurylink connection just about every fortnight on average throughout the year...

Good/bad. Or unlucky, nobideas, flakey yeah pretty much, and limited choices to boot.

Thanks for the link though, wondering why I’d lost all connections for a couple of hours yesterday

[Lemming Train]

It's ongoing. Big outages in Europe. My EE was down for an hour or so.

https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages

[hepy]

I wondered why my Xbox Live went really laggy last night!

[bitchstewie]

Yeah L3 are just a beast in terms of when the impact they have.

Fascinating seeing it happen in real time and reading the networking forums as people try and work out what's going on.

[tangerine_sedge]

Sounds like a bad rule caused a flood of BGP updates : https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/31/centurylink...

[bitchstewie]

Good write up from Cloudflare with some supposition.

Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage

[Jasandjules]

Pah, I lost my Vodaphone internet for two days....

[OtherBusiness]

Will get more common to discourage the work from home.......

[Vanden Saab]

Strangely I am just trying to get my Internet back working as it has dropped out... Not sure if it is connected...

[A500leroy]

Should be interesting when driverless vehicles come along if they use the mobile 5g network and that goes down like this.

[Lemming Train]

A500leroy said:

Should be interesting when driverless vehicles come along if they use the mobile 5g network and that goes down like this.

Also all those in favour of a cashless world should pay attention, too.

[rodericb]

anonymous said:

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Why don't they just use their onboard sensors all of the time?

[Anubis]

OtherBusiness said:

Will get more common to discourage the work from home.......

Businesses also use the internet....? It's just where you sit your butt - it likely runs through more or less the same cables eventually

[Anubis]

rodericb said:

anonymous said:

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Why don't they just use their onboard sensors all of the time?

I guess because having on-board sensors AND a connection helps with the bigger picture - everything flows more smoothly.

(For example; vehicles know it's getting busier 1 mile ahead so we can slow everyone down so it keeps moving correctly...rather than focusing on a handful of cars around the one you are in). :P

[Lemming Train]

anonymous said:

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I'd be pissed.

[OtherBusiness]

anonymous said:

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Zoom went down for several hours not so long ago too

[PositronicRay]

ash73 said:

anonymous said:

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In built-up areas... not a chance.

The only place it might happen is motorways.

Once they realise that, they might make some progress.

Think back how far things have come in the last 3o yrs. Now try to imagine 2050.

[leef44]

And they don't even get to blame Huawei