DNSSEC issues take Fiji domains offline
March 09, 2022 10:11 AM
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation...
Internet is back in Tonga after 38 days of outage
February 22, 2022 1:04 PM
Tonga, the South Pacific archipelago nation (with 169 islands), was reconnected to the Internet this early morning (UTC) and is back online after successful repairs to the undersea cable that was damaged on Saturday, January 15, 2022, by the January 14, volcanic eruption...
Internet outage in Yemen amid airstrikes
January 21, 2022 12:20 PM
The early hours of Friday, January 21, 2022, started in Yemen with a country-wide Internet outage...
Tonga’s likely lengthy Internet outage
January 19, 2022 1:58 PM
The latest Internet outage, in the South Pacific country of Tonga (with 169 islands), is still ongoing. It started with the large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an uninhabited volcanic island of the Tongan archipelago on Friday, January 14, 2022...
Sudan: seven days without Internet access (and counting)
November 01, 2021 10:41 AM
It's not every day that there is no Internet access in an entire country. In the case of Sudan, it has been five days without Internet after political turmoil that started last Monday, October 25, 2021...
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August 30th 2020: Analysis of CenturyLink/Level(3) outage
Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet. ...
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Not one, not two, but three undersea cables cut in Jersey
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Dyn issues affecting joint customers
Today there is an ongoing, large scale Denial-of-Service attack directed against Dyn DNS. While Cloudflare services are operating normally, if you are using both Cloudflare and Dyn services, your website may be affected....
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