[outages] Major outages today, not much info at this time

[Teun Vink]

On di, 2014-08-12 at 15:20 +0000, Hoyle Anderson (AM) via Outages wrote:
> I know this isn’t much help, but there are major problems with
> multiple ISPs since around 4-5 AM EST.  I really don’t have much
> detail, but I have sites that are unreachable from some providers.
> Looks like Comcast, level3, ATT, cogent, etc.
> 
>  
> 
> So, it’s probably not just you, but I’m afraid I don’t know who it is.
> I heard one report of a datacenter outage.
> 

Hi,

Some routing tables hit 512K routes today. Some old hardware and
software can't handle that and either crash or ignore newly learned
routes. So this may cause some disturbances in the force.

HTH,
Teun