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Network Performance Issues in Virginia and Ohio United States

Degraded Lasted 50m · started · Cloudflare's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Regions
us

What to do

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Updates from Cloudflare 1

  1. resolved

    Due to unexpected prefix withdrawals on peering links in IAD and CMH (Ashburn, Virginia and Columbus, Ohio, in the United States) on an external provider, customers experienced increased latency and timeouts from 08:00 to 08:50 UTC. Services have fully normalized following the restoration of prefix advertisements.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-036a069135

Is Cloudflare still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-10-18 08:50 UTC. For Cloudflare's live state, see https://down.guide/cloudflare.

How long did it last?

50m, from 2026-10-18 08:00 UTC to 2026-10-18 08:50 UTC, by the times Cloudflare posted.

What was affected?

Cloudflare named in us.

What caused it?

Cloudflare hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Cloudflare's official status page, https://www.cloudflarestatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.