Cloudflare analysis of the CenturyLink outage

Nic-Automox · 2020-08-31T17:56:21+00:00

The Cloudflare Blog – 30 Aug 20 Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet. TL:DR - it was probably a faulty BGP command

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August 31, 2020
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Nic-Automox
Former Automox Employee

TL:DR - it was probably a faulty BGP command

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Chuck
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Forum|Forum|5 years ago
August 31, 2020

Thanks Nic! Do we have a grasp on how much Automox was impacted?

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Nic-Automox
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Forum|Forum|5 years ago
August 31, 2020

As far as I know we don’t host anything through CloudFlare, so the most likely only impact would have been for people using CenturyLink as their ISP who would have had no connectivity. Pretty much all of our infrastructure on AWS.

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