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Comment by zarmin | Hacker News Reader

Whatever is the source, I really hope it's not malicious. The US is vulnerable.

Considering it is impacting other non-celluar services (like Facebook), I'm guessing it is an internet backbone issue (e.g. bad BGP routing was broadcast?).

PS - This doesn't mean it is unrelated to the Spring/T-Mobile merger, they themselves could be the ones who screwed up routing.

My guess is it's some technical issue related to the Sprint merger. I have no data to back this up.

That is the current suggestion: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-June/013124.h...

    This is because of an update in the systems from the Sprint side to help 
    merge with T Mobile. That happened from 12am-6am EST and Sprint's systems 
    clashed with T Mobile's. I'm glad I have off today.

Based on how it has unfolded, I'm betting it's a cascading failure. Data seems to be unaffected, it is only voice.

Uh oh.

https://www.digitalattackmap.com/

US and Brazil both under a massive DDOS attack right now.

FWIW, that isn't showing live data -- it says June 14 at the top.

If you run it back, it looks like that's been the case for at least a couple weeks now. I guess that's unrelated to what's going on today?

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