Digital Ocean Networking Issues Due to Internet Backbone Provider Outage

CenturyLink has suffered a pair of fiber cuts that are impacting their network nationwide. Word is the damage is extensive.

--- * CASCADED EXTERNAL NOTES 21-Apr-2020 15:48:56 GMT From CASE: 18572279 - Event The Transport NOC reports that one Field Operations team is set to arrive in Milwaukee, WI momentarily, and the secondary Field Operations team remains in transit to the gateway facility in Zion, IL. An ETA of 17:00 GMT remains expected.

Update: Network Operations Center reports that services are impacted by multiple fiber cuts that are impacting the CenturyLink network. Field Operations and all necessary repair personnel have arrived to the first fiber cut location and are currently working to pull in the slack on the fiber span. Approximately 3,000 feet of new fiber will be required to pulled in.

This is hitting me hard, most of our infrastructure is unavailable and I am pretty much unable to do anything about it at the moment.

More ticket updates are appearing in this Reddit thread. Fiber splicing is ongoing

https://old.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/g5h8ho/level3_o...

Ugh, recently started a new job...Today was launch day for the first project that i got handed on this new job...and then this now. I'm not fully blaming DO, since it seems to be backbone/upstream provider, but it still hurts.

Anyone hear from DO on when the expect it to come back?

Does anyone have a link to a statement from the provider? Or at least their name?

This is really bad for us. Lot of our infrastructure sites are down. Oops.

Wonder if Github is affected by this somehow.

I am getting severely screwed by this