UPDATE, 3:31 PM: Actually, the internet isn’t under siege and you can still watch Netflix over the weekend, though it certainly seemed like the digital world had collapsed to PONG levels for a time today.
There are still some dark spots out there, and some sites showing a little rickety, but one of the leading providers of routers connecting domains to their real IP addresses says they have identified the problem and are on the lookout for more problems.
“This afternoon we saw an interruption in some parts of our network. It wasn’t as a result of an attack, ”Cloudflare DNS said on its blog just minutes ago after more than an hour of outage the previous Friday. “It appears that a router on our global backbone network announced incorrect routes and caused some parts of the network to be unavailable. We believe we have addressed the root cause and are now monitoring the systems for stability. “
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Good to know.
As a firestorm blazed when the internet was essentially worldwide, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince also went online in the last few minutes to accurately identify problems arising from a router in Atlanta “that turned out in diverted traffic to PoPs that connect to our spine. ” He added: “Everything is restored now and we are investigating the root cause.”
Indeed, as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the United States and citizens are urged to stay home again as politicians contemplate possible new quarantine mandates, the loss of the Internet would unleash many at this time.
PREVIOUSLY, 3:15 PM: First were the Twitter VIPs that were hacked earlier this week, and today large extensions of the Internet went down for a while.
A disruption to Cloudflare’s DNS service saw DOA websites and connections around the world for nearly an hour this afternoon. The problem has been identified and a solution is being implemented, “the widely used website security and web infrastructure company said about 10 minutes ago on its status page.
Intermittent outage runs from Los Angeles to Amsterdam with Amazon web services and highly subscribed media sites like Political and others dark or sometimes frozen.
“Customers using Cloudflare’s services in certain regions are affected as requests may fail and / or errors may be displayed,” Cloudflare said earlier in the day. “The affected data centers include: SJC, DFW, SEA, LAX, ORD, IAD, EWR, ATL, LHR, AMS, FRA, CDG,” they added using the city’s and country airport codes.
Across the digital landscape, internet data analytics firm Downdetector saw figured plugs everywhere:
User reports indicate Tumblr is having issues as of 6:01 PM EDT. https://t.co/Ln0DBS9CGe RT if you also have problems #Tumblrdown
– Downdetector (@downdetector) July 17, 2020
User reports indicate Minecraft is having issues as of 5:37 PM EDT. https://t.co/o21vGs5E2r RT if you also have #Minecraftdown issues
– Downdetector (@downdetector) July 17, 2020
User reports indicate Postmates is having issues as of 5:29 PM EDT. https://t.co/g4Ec4t6bg8 RT if you also have problems #postmatesdown
– Downdetector (@downdetector) July 17, 2020
User reports indicate Amazon Web Services is having issues as of 5:28 pm EDT. https://t.co/gtjcTxuBcO RT if you also have #AmazonWebServicesdown issues
– Downdetector (@downdetector) July 17, 2020
User reports indicate that Google is having issues as of 5:32 PM EDT. https://t.co/MK35emuk7T RT if you have problems #Googledown too
– Downdetector (@downdetector) July 17, 2020
It appears that Google’s own Public Domain Name System is also on fire and is not working as expected. However, that interruption appears to be much more sporadic, at least at this time.
We will update this story as it unfolds if we can connect online.
