Linode cloud users in Europe hit as Frankfurt DC falls to its knees

Found on The Register on Monday, 02 October 2017
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Linode attributed the outage to both "hardware and software failures" happening at the same time to its two internet-facing routers.

The "undocumented forwarding table forwarding bug" it had referred to earlier also affected its redundant routers.

Just your daily reminder that the cloud buzzword must never be mixed up with uptime. Or security while we're at it.