Cloudflare Status · History · Incident #149796

RESOLVED

Network Performance Issues in Virginia and Ohio United States

Minor · Started Oct 18, 2026 · 9:37 AM

  • Duration

    47m

  • Severity

    Minor

  • Detection lead

    —

  • User reports

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Summary

Network Performance Issues in Virginia and Ohio United States

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.


  • Started

    Oct 18, 2026 · 9:37 AM

  • Resolved

    Oct 18, 2026 · 8:50 AM

  • Duration

    47m

  • Severity

    Minor

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • ✓

    Resolved

    Oct 18 · 9:37 AM Cloudflare

    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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