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Seems they didn't even get around to doing so, rather asking other carriers to stop peering with them.

https://twitter.com/TeliaCarrier/status/1300074378378518528?...

CenturyLink requested depeering to give them some breathing room and stop the bleeding. Hug ops.

That is a fantastic euphemism. Personally I'm disappointed Telia didn't de-peer two hours earlier, after diagnosing the issue for 30 minutes, since that whole lack of functioning routning to very large parts of the internet forced me to use VPN in north america to access many web services, including HN.

I realize I'm going to get insanely downvoted by the elite internetworking crowd again but I think this needs to be said.

From an outsider's POV: There seems to be a very strange and almost incestual relationship between the networking companies. Or maybe it's just their hangaround supporters? I dunno.

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