Cloudflare managed to get an in-depth blog post, one which has incident details, points blame to other parties, and makes some really quite aggressive (for corporate blog posts) claims, all during an incident, and they did all that in 8 hours . I'm impressed. At most other similar size companies, this would take 4 days. And in something like Amazon, it would be 2 weeks of approvals, editing, and review before a water…
Regarding those really aggressive claims, I was a bit shocked by that as well. Either Cloudflare has some pre-existing beef with Verizon and is using this as an opportune moment to dump on them ... or Tom Strickx (who wrote the blog post) had his beauty rest interrupted early this morning to deal with Verizon's screw-up and was not having it.
Re: Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
#291If Cloudflare is correct on the technical part (no idea, I don't have enough knowledge to evaluate) then they are completely within their rights to call out Verizon on not doing the right thing. It's not "aggressive" at all. They don't mean harm to Verizon, they just point out Verizon is not doing their job correctly, and should step up and fix it. And not having somebody to talk to for 8hr for a provider than is capable of downing significant part of the internet is also something worth calling out. It's not some mom-and-pop shop that the owner can just hang a sign on the door and go to the beach, it's a major provider that should always have open channels to communicate on things like this.