CenturyLink BGP routing mistakes caused a ripple effect across the Internet that led to outages, disconnects, and performance issues across numerous Internet-connected platforms and services. Those impacted include Cloudflare, Amazon, Garmin, Steam, Discord, Blizzard, and many more.
Lawrence Abrams, the creator and owner of BleepingComputer.com was the first to make the problem public.
These outages started at approximately 6 a.m. EST, on Sunday. Customers began reporting wide-scale connectivity issues in the U.S. with both private and commercial users of CenturyLink services being impacted.
On Twitter, complaints appeared about poor performance or outages on numerous connected services such as Blizzard, Steam, Discord, Roblox, Cloudflare, Hulu, Slink, Reddit, Amazon AWS, and many more.
This outage has since been resolved, and services seem to have recovered. Some areas took longer than others. These issues were also likely related to domain registrar NameCheap hosting outages.
BGP Routing issue caused outages
According to numerous reports from affected customers, these early morning problems were caused by a BGP routing issue at CenturyLink.
