[Outages-discussion] News Reports of Outages Yesterday

[Neil Hanlon]

Cogent had a big outage affecting several large prefixes that were being
advertised incorrectly. There's some detail on their status page.

Found about it this morning here
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7kmoke/cogent_has_discovered_our_38_block_ip_range_being

On Dec 19, 2017 09:52, "Nate Burke" <nate at blastcomm.com> wrote:

> I saw a news article yesterday
> http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/12/18/the_inter
> net_is_really_slow_right_now.html
> Stating that 'two major backbone internet service providers, Level 3 and
> Cogent, appear to be suffering from massive outages'  I didn't see anything
> come up on the outages list here, and I did not see any issues or tickets
> with my backbone providers.  Was this just sensational news trying to
> piggyback on Net Neutrality Fears?
>
> Nate
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