All North American Data Center Worlds Network Technical Difficulties (Oct. 26)

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Reference my post above. This is a Level3 issue. It's most likely not a Ddos attack.

Most definitely a routing/service outage, and cut or failing fiber at a focal point can be really nasty with all the added technical complications you get at this order of magnitude (and with so many people supposedly being affected downstream).
I'm rather surprised that they didn't immediately escalate this, though - I work in IT as a profession, and my hometown houses one of the main regional/national network hubs for the Italian territory. Even here, the emergence of such a single point of failure would have raised quite a few eyebrows...