Yeah, in talking with folks here in France it seems that everything got routed around, albeit with some higher latencies in some cases.
> On Jul 30, 2024, at 18:27, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Based on the comments in those messages, apparently the locations on the > internet cabling were not selected carefully enough. > > "...and routes around it." > > Cheers, > -- jra > > > On July 30, 2024 12:18:17 PM EDT, Bill Woodcock via Outages > <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, from Rudolf: > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: "Rudolf van der Berg" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [net-econ] Attack on French vital infrastructures >> Date: July 30, 2024 at 14:10:48 GMT+2 >> To: [email protected] >> Resent-From: [email protected] >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> >> A quick copy paste from something I wrote on a Dutch site. Google translated >> it >> >> Update: photos of broken cables >> https://x.com/nguillam/status/1817870929520677023 >> >> A better source is Numerama. They also link to a number of twitter accounts >> of serious people in the French internet world who know what's going on. >> https://www.numerama.com/...-sur-votre-connexion.html >> >> The affected cables are in 6 areas across the country: 11 (Aude), 34 >> (Hérault), 51 (Marne), 55 (Meuse), 13 (Bouches du Rhône) and 84 (Vaucluse). >> They seem to be mainly cables from the French operator SFR, which other >> operators, such as Free, OVH, Bouygues also use. The social effects seem to >> be limited. The traffic seems to be rerouted. The alternative route is >> sometimes not ideal, for example there are traceroutes that show that OVH to >> Orange seems to run via Singapore. >> https://x.com/BoolKiRool/status/1817819378395570206 >> >> Downdetector does show that there is an impact, but it does not seem that >> large banks and other social services have been badly affected. >> >> Something similar happened 2 years ago, but the locations are not the same. >> There were speculations at the time that it could have been extremists >> (left/right), union members or angry employees. It remains unclear who they >> really were. So I would not dare to speculate now about who did this. In any >> case, France has often seen strange sabotage of telecom infrastructure, >> sometimes done by competing technicians from telcos! Monks have even been >> arrested for setting fire to masts. >> >> (I know some people in the French Internet scene and have been in contact >> with them about this) >> >> Op di 30 jul 2024 om 09:15 schreef Jaap van Till via groups.io >> <[email protected]>: >> Dear all, >> >> Not only the high speed TGV train infrastructure was attacked by fires ? at >> several places at the same time, claimed by extreme leftwing people. But >> also certain carefully selected optic fiber cables where cut all over France. >> Not much was published about that though. In the press they only mentioned >> that in certain “departements”(provinces) Internet access was unavailable, >> but that it worked fine in Paris region. >> I hope this habit will not spread among political activists, because it can >> endanger lives. >> >> My focus is on “Creating Value by Combining” 🧐😊🤓😁 Van Till’s Law : >> 4th Networking Effect: V= N! Value created by Cooperation = N unique >> contributors, Factorial. ( Multiplication of shared value). >> >> >> _._,_._,_ >> Groups.io Links: >> You receive all messages sent to this group. >> View/Reply Online (#32496) | Reply To Group | Reply To Sender | Mute This >> Topic | New Topic >> Your Subscription | Contact Group Owner | Unsubscribe [[email protected]] >> _._,_._,_ > > > -Bill > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -Bill _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
