The Internet Report

This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. In this week’s episode, we dive into a recent outage at Slack that caused intermittent issues for its enterprise users (including ourselves) for nearly a full day. The cause, as noted by Slack, was on the backend and related to an overloaded database. Next, we dig into another outage at Microsoft. According to their statement, a bug in an internal update seems to have revoked the routes to a number of devices that were believed to be unhealthy—thereby creating congestion in the rest of their network. This explanation jives with the increased packet loss we observed during this time period. Don’t miss this week’s episode, where we walk through these outages in depth

This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On today’s episode, we dive into a recent Azure AD disruption that significantly impacted access to Microsoft cloud services and apps (as well as third-party apps) for nearly three hours. We then went under the hood on a recent BGP hijacking in which Telstra began announcing routes to services that didn’t belong to it, such as Quad9. Catch this episode to hear our take on these incidents, and see below for show links, some additional commentary on these outages, and a sneak preview of next week’s episode.

On today’s episode, Angelique and I cover off on a couple outages that occurred over the past week. First, we discuss an application outage at Instagram that occurred on September 17th and lasted around 30 minutes. We also discuss a network outage on September 14th on the AWS backbone near Columbus, Ohio. This outage was a little more widespread, affecting nearly 100 interfaces and lasting around 30 minutes. Next, we dive into the upcoming bans on WeChat and TikTok, which have now been temporarily extended by a Federal judge, and then we walk through some of the network architecture differences between these two applications and how a potential shutdown could be enforced.

It was another quiet week on the Internet, so we wanted to spend some time answering your questions around some recent outages. Catch this episode as we discuss how you can understand the upstream relationships of the services you rely on to assess your risk profile. We also cover why SLAs fall short in protecting your business in the event of an outage, and why you need to proactively collaborate with your providers to solve issues faster.

The Internet held up reasonably well over the past week, all things considered. There were no major outages to report, which is a welcome repose for those impacted by the major outages the week prior. While it’s not an outage that occurred this past week, we did want to spend some time covering the recent Verizon Edgecast outage that occurred on August 21st. Watch this episode as we dive into this application-level outage to understand exactly what happened and who might have been impacted.

This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. It was a rough week on the Internet last week, with outages and incidents across multiple services and providers including Slack, Zoom, AWS, and Verizon. However, in today’s episode we’re going to focus exclusively on Sunday’s CenturyLink / Level 3 outage that according to Cloudflare, caused a significant 3.5% drop in global Internet traffic, making it one of the most significant internet outages ever recorded.

his is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Archana and I cover some recent outages that made headlines. This includes the Spotify outage, caused by an expired TLS certificate, that prevented users from accessing its platform. We also cover off on a widespread outage at Cogent during (what seems to be) a maintenance window. Then, we go “under the hood” on the prolonged outage at an IXP on August 18th to understand exactly what infrastructure was impacted and which downstream providers were subsequently impacted. We’re also joined by our guest, Prabhnit Singh, who currently leads ThousandEyes’ Internet & WAN product line, to discuss why we’re seeing an increased number of outages caused by expired TLS certificates and to cover some examples of past high-profile outages.

On this week’s episode, Archana and I cover recent headlines concerning social media platform, TikTok, and the gaming provider, Epic Games. TikTok appears to have gained some additional time (now 90 days) before the US government will enforce its ban on the service. Gaming provider, Epic Games, recently made news when its game Fortnite was removed from Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store for violating their Terms of Service. Epic was quick to file a lawsuit claiming the tech giants were in violation of anti-competition laws. The outcome of this case will be one to watch, and can have far-reaching impacts for developers. Next up, we speak with William Collins, Lead Cloud Architect at a Fortune 100 company, about cloud connectivity, on-ramp services and the difference between the “Big 3” on-ramp services.

This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Mike sat down with our guest, Ray Hunter, the senior network consultant at Globis in the Netherlands, to talk about SatComms and the role they play in connecting users, and what effect the mass deployment of Low Earth Orbital (LEO) satellites will have on networks and service delivery. We also discuss a recent move by the US to ban financial transactions between TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, and US citizens, effectively removing financial incentives to serve US citizens. While not an outright ban, it does raise questions about how an outright ban even be enforced, and what that means for the broader conversation around Internet sovereignty.

This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, Archana and I discuss a small number of outages that hit certain regions of the globe over the past week. This includes an outage that caused a midday disruption for people trying to connect to Reddit, a weekend DNS issue at Telstra, and a Cogent outage in EMEA and NA that had the signatures of a maintenance window. We also revisit Cloudflare’s root cause analysis concerning their recent DNS outage and answer some of the open-ended questions we had.