[afnog] Blue Thursday

[Paul McMaster]

Quite a few ISP's in SA and I presume also others are having issues
with international.

>From TENET:
Both failures appear to be terrestrial - the WACS failure is confirmed
to be in the UK and the SEACOM failure is reported to be in Egypt.
Subsea failures would have been much more worrying as they can take
days, even weeks, to fix, whereas terrestrial failures are
generally addressed within hours. We accordingly have reason to
believe that service will be restored reasonably soon. Notwithstanding
this, we're also investigating restoration options from other
providers as a backup.

I know those that use SAT3/SAIX for international transit are ok.

Paul


On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Nishal Goburdhan
<nishal at controlfreak.co.za> wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2016, at 17:38, Paul McMaster wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Anyone else having a "fantastic" day?
>> Multiple terrestrial fibre breaks etc causing some fun.
>
>
> i just finished an almost 2hr skype call with a colleague in malaysia,
> planning a workshop.
> things worked fine for me, although we did disconnect once.
> ssh sessions to hosts in FRA and are still up.
>
> what problems are you experiencing?
>
> there is this announcement:
> http://seacom.mu/seacom-experiencing-critical-outage-1500-gmt/
> but no other announcements of note that i’ve seen.
>
> —n.
>