Yesterday morning, Monday February 16th at 08:24 a network event occurred on a global scale. In short, a network in central Europe started feeding bad routing information to the entire Internet, which caused routers around the world to have problems. In our case, three of our four peer networks experienced "flapping", meaning their connections between their networks and ours going up and down. At no time was digital.forest "off the air" but as the entire Internet was unstable for a period of about 45 minutes to an hour, we may have been unreachable for some people, for some of that time.

We closely monitor the communications channels that enable the cooperative operations of the global Internet. Through these we quickly discovered the specific source and the proposed "fix" (filtering the source of the problem) and had it implemented not long afterwards.