# Opinion: Internet Outage Traced to Networking Error

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/economist-how-the-web-leaks/

A networking mistake in Pittsburgh disrupted global internet access. A similar incident occurred in The Netherlands due to a Swiss datacenter misconfiguration. The cause was a computer networking error, not a deliberate action.

Publisher: Bert Hubert's writings — Opinion / commentary.

#internet #networking #errors #datacenter

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Created: 2026-10-29T04:14:02.229858+00:00

Last edited: 2026-10-29T04:14:02.229858+00:00

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Original source: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/economist-how-the-web-leaks/