Psdhart,
Today, starting at approximately 10:03 UTC, a misconfiguration at a major external
network provider caused connectivity disruptions across the Internet. These
disruptions impacted the operations of many service providers, including Cloudflare.
Cloudflare’s systems routed around the problem, however, some Internet properties
that use Cloudflare saw increased error rates during the impact period despite our
mitigations.
During this period we saw traffic drop by about 3.5% across our network as well as
an increase in HTTP errors which may have presented as 522 (Connection Timeout)
status codes.
We have posted an initial detailed analysis of this incident written by our CEO on
the Cloudflare blog (
https://blog.cloudflare.com/centurylink-outage/). Presently, we
are no longer seeing additional impact at Cloudflare from these transit provider
issues.
We understand how disruptive these events can be, and we will continue to provide
the latest updates for issues impacting Cloudflare's network on
cloudflarestatus.com.
The Cloudflare Team