When there’s a big internet outage, there are two major suspects:
Cybercrime
Cloudflare.
Or maybe that should be in the other order. What we know so far is that at around 18:19 UTC, or approximately 2:19 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, there was a sudden spike in trouble reports and apparent network outages.
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Downdetector makes a pretty picture out of it.
Of course, with the recent unpleasantness in the Middle East, people immediately jump to the conclusion that it has something to do with Iran or Israel, and it was indeed somewhat suspicious that India was having a lot of troubles, and Pakistan wasn’t.
It looks, however, like the problem was actually option 2 — Cloudflare.
If you want to skip to the chase, it comes down to this:
(17:19
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