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From the other (Cloudflare) thread (post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24322603), the outages list (https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages).

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/thread...

Not a network engineer, but based on the comments there it looks like it's a BGP blackhole incident.

Edit: removed details about the similarity to a 1997 incident based in input from commenters.

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> Not a network engineer, but based on the comments there it looks like it's a BGP blackhole incident, possibly reminiscent of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident in 1997.

As you aren’t a network engineer, I can understand making that leap based on the context, but no, this is nothing like the AS7007 event.

The “black hole” in this case is due to networks pulling their routes via AS3356 to try and avoid their outage, but when they do, CenturyLink is still announcing those routes and as such those networks blackhole.

So it's not a BGP blackhole incident then?

Not all BGP blackholes are the same. The AS7007 incident from over twenty years ago is an entirely different cause, and thus unrelated.

What I take from that: It is a BGP blackhole incident.

What I take from this is that you’re offering input to a thread which you don’t have experience in or even actually understand, thus are spreading misinformation. You then are continually doubling down further showing your maturity.

You aren’t helping, so please stop.

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