A CenturyLink Bug Caused Massive Internet Outages Affecting Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft and More
Aug. 31, 2020American ISP, CenturyLink, says it has resolved the issues that affected its services on Sunday, causing major disruptions in internet connectivity across the US. The company has also revealed that theoutage was the result of a misconfigured firewall and BGP routingin one of its data centers near Ontario, Canada.
Thankfully, the company now says that its services are now up and running once again. In a tweet late last night, the ISP said:“We are able to confirm that all services impacted by today’s IP outage have been restored.We sincerely apologize for the impact this outage caused”.
According to CenturyLink, the issue originated from one of its Canadian data centers. The root cause of the problems was apparently“An offending Flowspec announcement (that) prevented BGP from establishing correctly, impacting client services”.
It is worth noting that the outage didn’t only impact CenturyLink and its customers, but also online security companies and cloud infrastructure providers,like CloudFlare. The web-security company, on Sunday, claimed that its clients also suffered extensive outage because of the problems.
In ablog poston Sunday, the company said that the issue affected a number of its customers“in spite of our mitigations”. Thankfully, CloudFlare has since announced that all its services are now running as normal.
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