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Internet traffic disruption caused by the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville

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Date Published
Author
John Graham-Cumming
Word Count
165
Company Posts That Month
19
Language
English
Hacker News Points
4
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No
Summary

On December 25th, 2020, a suicide bomb exploded outside an AT&T network building in Nashville, TN, causing significant damage to the building's power supply and generators. This led to telephone and internet service outages for local residents that lasted two days. According to traffic flow data from Cloudflare, services operated on battery power for over five hours after the explosion before experiencing a dramatic drop at 1748 UTC. Service began recovering on December 27th at 1822 UTC, with normal traffic flows resuming and no further disruptions reported.

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