I'm interested in these events. It might be worth making a separate list for them?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 6:24 PM Scott Weeks <sur...@mauigateway.com> wrote: > > > --- s...@donelan.com wrote: > From: Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> > > I hadn't seen messages about this Internet outage affecting multiple > countries (Eastern Europe, Turkey and Iran) from Thursday. > > Multiple fiber cuts affecting major parts of sub-continents don't happen > as much any more. Yes, I still remember the day of FIVE (5) simultaneous, > trans-continental fiber cuts in the USA. I was busy :-) > > I don't know if Internet route diversity has improved... or people aren't > sending me messages about them anymore. > --------------------------------- > > I have become quite interested in this lately. I don't send them > to the list as no one seemed interested when I sent them before. > For example, India as been turning off the internet like they turn > the lights: > > https://internetshutdowns.in/ > > > Kashmir has been without internet for over 100 days: > > > https://guardian.ng/news/world/restive-kashmir-marks-100-days-since-india-stripped-autonomy/ > > Just think how you'd do anything without internet for 100+ days! > > > > > ------------------------------------ > Usually after a country as 3 or 4 major egress points, large-scale > unintentional internet outages are relatively rare. Countries with only > 1 or 2 egress points still have lots of problems. > ------------------------------------ > > I'm not so sure 3-4 is a large enough number. Many countries are > copying China in information repression (among other things) which > includes building in the ability to turn off internet access > (internationally as well as intranationally) as their network is > built out. Funny that one thing something as large as a country > is afraid of is normal folks talking to each other freely. They > really don't like the end-to-end principle. :) > > scott > > > > > > > https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420 > > Severed fibre optic cables disrupted internet access in parts of eastern > Europe, Iran and Turkey on Thursday. > > The issue, which lasted for about two hours, was caused by multiple fibre > cables being physically cut at the same time, a highly unusual thing to > happen. > [...] > > >