Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 🔥

Wed Mar 10 15:57:59 UTC 2021

So your saying my “bot” dashboard should show a decrease in volume today? Interesting… I might run some stats today to see if there is a noticeable drop in Europe.

-John

> On Mar 10, 2021, at 10:53 AM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
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> In addition to that, even if this is not good for many "honest" people that was using the DC, we need to take it in the positive side. In my own case, OVH is probably the cause of 80% of the abuse cases I report, and they never react. I'm convinced I'm not the only one, as I read in other ops mailing lists ...
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> So, the positive side is a) during some days, we can see an interesting decrease in abuse cases, b) because the so many abuse cases, many OVH "honest" customers are often being filtered because they share addresses with the "bad guys", so it is an opportunity for them to move to alternative DCs that probably are more careful about "bad guys".
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> A good topic for researchers :-)
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> Regards,
> Jordi
> @jordipalet
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> El 10/3/21 16:44, "NANOG en nombre de Andy Ringsmuth" <nanog-bounces+jordi.palet=consulintel.es at nanog.org en nombre de andy at andyring.com> escribió:
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>> On Mar 10, 2021, at 3:23 AM, Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler at init7.net> wrote:
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>> Very sad day for our colleagues at OVH AS16276 as they lost their datacenter SBG-2 in Strasbourg/France completly („everything is destroyed“) in a fire 🔥 and the neighboring SBG1/SBG3/SBG4 at least temporary.
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>> https://www.dna.fr/amp/faits-divers-justice/2021/03/10/strasbourg-important-incendie-dans-une-entreprise-situee-sur-un-site-seveso-au-port-du-rhin
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>    Sad to see of course, but also a little surprising that fire suppression systems didn’t, well, suppress the fire.
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>    Unless they didn’t exist?
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