Fat-fingered Level 3 techie reduces internet to level zero: Glitch knocks out connections • The Register

Fat-fingered Level 3 techie reduces internet to level zero: Glitch knocks out connections • The Register
"Fat-fingered Level 3 techie reduces internet to level zero: Glitch knocks out connections

Celebrates CenturyLink gobble by blacking out

A fat-fingered configuration blunder at Level 3 temporarily sent a chunk of internet connectivity in America and the wider world to level zero on Monday.
The global backbone provider admitted it was at fault for rolling outages that have plagued big patches of US this morning, West Coast time, particularly for Comcast subscribers. 
Netizens in Europe and Australia have, like their American cousins, reported problems accessing websites, viewing Twitter images, and so on, due to Level 3 breaking their routing....
A heat map of busted connectivity, produced by outage monitoring service DownDetecter, showed just how extensive the problem was in the Land of the Free earlier today:

Red is dead ... America's Level 3 outage map as of mid-day US Pacific Time

Level 3 is one of the trunk roads of the internet that links big networks: if it goes down, it takes nearly everyone else with it..."
Read on!