Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 🔥

Wed Mar 10 16:00:46 UTC 2021

Was thinking the exact same thing; they and Digital Ocean seem to compete for the number two spot behind China as a malicious traffic source on all my public facing networks.

From the pics, the place looked like it has had quite a few semi-trailer containers added around it, perhaps they were running a little too much equipment in the building and it required power / hvac augmenting but fire suppression was left as it was...

On 3/10/21, 8:55 AM, "NANOG on behalf of JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG" <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com at nanog.org on behalf of nanog at nanog.org> wrote:

    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 ...

    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".

    A good topic for researchers :-)

    Regards,
    Jordi
    @jordipalet

    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:

        > On Mar 10, 2021, at 3:23 AM, Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler at init7.net> wrote:
        > 
        > 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.
        > 
        > 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

        Sad to see of course, but also a little surprising that fire suppression systems didn’t, well, suppress the fire.

        Unless they didn’t exist?

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