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Major Level-3/CenturyLink outage (including 4.2.2.2 DNS)
Looks like Level-3 / CenturyLink is having a major service outage starting a little over two hours ago. This will affect non-customers, because it includes their popular public DNS servers, e.g. 4.2.2.2
Outage maps are showing increasing issues:
https://outage.report/us/level3
https://downdetector.com/status/centurylink/
Hooray for early morning NOC alerts. Sleep is for the weak.
UPDATE: 14:22 UTC - Looks like some connectivity has just been restored. But still LOTS of issues.
Thanked by 1vpsGOD
Comments
They aren't even withdrawing routes either...
Exactly.
It is affecting other carriers too also now.
As of about 30 minutes ago, it looks like all services have been restored. Making the rounds on the news sites.
Google too, including the 8.8.8.8 resolver the whole internet relies on.
https://downdetector.com/status/google/
@jh Lots of internet services are getting incorrectly blamed. I happened to be using both Google (8.8.4.4) and Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1) while Level-3 was down. They were working from here. When a big transit provider goes down, the problems are everywhere/everyone.
I can see WWIII being started by a backbone DoS.