We have the ability to validate that all services impacted by todays IP blackout have actually been restored. We comprehend how crucial these services are to our consumers, and we regards excuse the effect this outage triggered.– CenturyLink (@CenturyLink) August 30, 2020
The blackout began early Sunday, and according to Cloudflares status page, it was seeing “an increased level of HTTP 5xx class mistakes,” such as 522 and 503. In a later upgrade Cloudflare stated it had “identified a problem with a transit company” as the reason for the issue, and that it was dealing with a repair. The blackout was affecting all information centers that utilize the transit provider.
Cloudflare stated its Sunday early morning failure impacting numerous websites was due to an IP blackout by web service provider CenturyLink. According to a tweet from CenturyLink, all impacted services have been brought back as of 11:15 AM ET.
Cloudflares services are indicated to prevent sites from suffering blackouts due to peak traffic loads as well as DDoS or spam comment attacks. DownDetector revealed Sundays failure was affecting the US and parts of western Europe, and websites including Discord, Hulu, Feedly, Xbox Live, and lots of others appeared to be impacted.
” Today we saw a widespread Internet outage online that impacted many several suppliers,” a Cloudflare representative said in an email to The Verge. “This was not a Cloudflare-specific blackout. Level 3/CenturyLink was accountable for an interruption that affected many Internet services, including Cloudflare. Cloudflares automated systems found the problem and routed around them, but the extent of the problem required manual intervention as well.”
Cloudflare understands network related concerns triggered by a third-party transit company incident. We are working to reduce the problem. Please follow the status page here: https://t.co/9DSYq0HIa7— Cloudflare Help (@CloudflareHelp) August 30, 2020
CenturyLink suffered an enormous failure in 2018 that affected 911 calls, ATM withdrawals, lottery game drawings and other services,
UPDATE August 30th 11:35 AM ET: Added info about CenturyLink and information that service appears to be brought back.
Level 3/CenturyLink was responsible for an outage that affected numerous Internet services, including Cloudflare. We are able to validate that all services impacted by todays IP interruption have actually been restored. We comprehend how essential these services are to our consumers, and we sincerely say sorry for the effect this failure caused.
