Fastly, the company behind a major global internet outage this week, said on Wednesday the incident was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings. Tuesday’s outage raised questions about the reliance of the internet on a few infrastructure companies. The company post gave a timeline of events and promised to examine and explain why Fastly had failed to detect the software bug during its own testing process. Once they disabled the settings that triggered the problem, most of the company’s network quickly recovered. Its networks were fully recovered at 1235 GMT and it began rolling out a permanent software fix at 1725 GMT, Fastly said.

Source: The Irish Times June 09, 2021 08:20 UTC