It appears as of today that the Internet itself is now two separate networks and some parts of the Internet can not talk to other parts. This is not a temporary outage. A major communication company, Level 3 has cut all traffic with another major communication company Cogent Communications.
I’ll be surprised if someone isn’t in court today asking for an emergency injunction to get this fixed.
The bottom line is that for now people who get their service from providers using Level 3 can’t go to the web sites who get their service from Cogent and vice versa. This also affects peer to peer applications like Chat and some kinds of voice over IP connections between Level 3 and Cogent customers.
The decision to disconnect is that of Level 3. They are the ones who pulled the plug fracturing the internet.
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