East Coast Internet Outage | Hacker News
This is speculation, of course, but: there are several large Internet Exchanges in NYC, and US/EU peering points. Its probable that a fiber cut could have cut several other links, and the failover links are now completely overwhelmed. Im not knowledgeable enough to answer that question. However, this is the only Twitter comment that mentions this on their page, and I dont have access to a Verizon account to verify their outage status memo. We had a flurry o...
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