June 9, 2021 01:21 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/9/22525820/fastly-outage-bug-customer
Fastly claims single customer responsible for widespread internet outage
The Fastly content delivery network (CDN) — a major middleman in internet traffic — took a nap for around an hour early Tuesday morning, and effectively knocked a huge number of major websites offline in the process. The company is now claiming the issue stemmed from a bug and one customer’s configuration change.
“We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change,” Nick Rockwell, the company’s SVP of engineering and infrastructure wrote in a blog post last night. “This outage was broad and severe, and we’re truly sorry for the impact to our customers and everyone who relies on them.”
Apparently, whatever the request was, it triggered...
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