According to https://twitter.com/bgp4_table, we have just exceeded 768k Border Gateway Protocol routing entries, which may be causing some routers to malfunction.
packet.net was hit. Specifically, also their San Jose DC. Internet only. It took less than an hour to recover. More than 20 minutes. I didn't ping it continuously, and I can say that the traceroute got stuck in Frankfuhrt (Where my ISP and their ISP first (as seen from me) meet).
I was actually surprised, as they tend to have excellent networking. Now I'm not nearly as distrusting as I was initially, knowing it was likely their ISP getting screwed by routing table overflow.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/some-internet-outages-predicte... 768k Day