One of the major internet service providers suffered a major technical outage on Sunday (30/08/2020). This has had a “domino” effect and caused an internet outage, impacting websites such as Amazon, Ebay, Twitter, Microsoft Xbox Live, Cloudfare, Reddit, EA, Blizzard and Steam among many others.
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What happened?
Yesterday at approximately 10:00 UTC, a large number of argentina whatsapp number data 5 million updates (announcements) were made (in error) to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) at the beginning of the issue.
While the service provider has yet to offer an official explanation, CloudFlare has offered a detailed analysis . In a nutshell, it appears that the cause of the outage has been a configuration error in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Specifically, an issue in a Flowspec rule . Other independent investigations corroborate that this has been the cause.
How did this affect Mailfence?
Due to the technical nature of the outage, related to BGP redirection – which exchanges routing information between peers – the error spread from the source of the incident and impacted services worldwide. As a result of the “domino effect”, Mailfence services were interrupted between 12:03 CET and 16:20 CET .
Answers to some possible questions:
1. Has it been possible to access or manipulate any of my data (emails or personal account information) in the Mailfence service from outside , or is it possible that it has been corrupted or lost?
Absolutely not. It was a connectivity disruption due to routing issues in global internet traffic.
2. Is it possible that some of the emails sent to me during the power outage may not arrive.
Absolutely not. The SMTP protocol handles these kinds of problems. Whenever a sender fails to send an email immediately, it will always try to send it later.
Major internet disruption: 3.5% of internet traffic disrupted
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