[161892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Mar 27 19:53:36 2013
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <A8B58D26-5157-4EF6-9612-57014C87A5DC@domino.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:53:18 -0400
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The BBC has a similar story: =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21963100
On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Neil J. McRae <neil@DOMINO.ORG> wrote:
> Via renesys
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-naval-forces-capture=
-3-scuba-divers-trying-to-sabotage-undersea-internet-cable/2013/03/27/dd29=
75ec-9725-11e2-a976-7eb906f9ed9b_story.html
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 27 Mar 2013, at 21:53, "Neil J. McRae" =
<neil@domino.org<mailto:neil@domino.org>> wrote:
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> quite a few EU to India cables are impacted right now 4/7 down.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:14, "Aftab Siddiqui" =
<aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com<mailto:aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues =
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> IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it worse.
> So, right now most of the traffic taking east bound routes.
> Who needs DDoS at this stage, these links are already chocked up :)
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> Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest =
attack
> in history'
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
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> --
> Regards,
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> Aftab A. Siddiqui
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--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
