Weekly internet health check, US and worldwide

On August 24, Cogent Communications experienced an outage that impacted both downstream providers as well as customers in countries including the US, New Zealand, Ukraine, Spain, Mexico, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, Republic of Korea, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Greece, China, Philippines, Brazil, Australia, France, and Argentina. First observed around 5:35 a.m. EDT, it appeared initially centered on Cogent nodes in Los Angeles, California. Five minutes later, the location of nodes terminating traffic increased to include Phoenix, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Francisco, San Jose, and Fullerton, California; El Paso and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; and Hong Kong. The outage lasted 59 minutes and appeared to coincide with Cogent planned-maintenance that involved code upgrades on their infrastructure in the Los Angeles area. The outage was cleared around 6:35 a.m. EDT.