Is Cogent experiencing an outage in Los Angeles?

Cogent’s status update says there are two separate fiber cuts affecting Los Angeles and the Southwestern United States. Customers may see increased latency or service disruptions, and some traffic to parts of the Asia-Pacific region may also be affected. Their engineers and a fiber contractor are working on restoration, but there isn’t an estimated recovery time yet.

Yes, several customers in Southern California are reporting DNS problems and general connectivity issues. It appears to be a wider regional incident rather than an isolated circuit problem.

This is a significant outage, and the fiber damage may take a while to repair. I wouldn’t count on normal service returning today unless the restoration work progresses faster than expected.