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OVH Incident in Strasbourg

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Re: OVH Incident in Strasbourg

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Some servers in GRA still appear to work if that's of any help. All data centres offline at once sounds more like an attack than a power failure in one location. According to them, there was a power failure in SBG but I don't see how that should affect routing in data centres several hundred miles away.

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928541667283623936

EDIT: Maybe related to the Cisco issue?

https://blogs.cisco.com/security/cisco-psirt-mitigating-and-...

Re: OVH Incident in Strasbourg

#3
UPDATE: not all datacenters are down, it seems like that in europe because ovh routing hasn't been updated so from our point of view everythign is down but really it is not :)

Re: OVH Incident in Strasbourg

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More info on Twitter from OVH's CEO: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom

and on https://twitter.com/ovh_support_en

"SBG: ERDF is trying to find out the default. 2 separated 20kV lines are down. We are trying to restart 2 generators A+B for SBG1/SG4. 2 others generators A+B work in SBG2. 1 routing room is in SBG1, the second in SBG2. Both are down. "

"An incident is ongoing impacting our network. We are all on the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience."

"SBG: 1 gen restarted."

"RBX: all optical links 100G from RBX to TH2, GSW, LDN, BRU, FRA, AMS are down."

Re: OVH Incident in Strasbourg

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post #2

Some servers in GRA still appear to work if that's of any help. All data centres offline at once sounds more like an attack than a power failure in one location. According to them, there was a power failure in SBG but I don't see how that should affect routing in data centres several hundred miles away. https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928541667283623936 EDIT: Maybe related to the Cisco issue? https://blogs.cisc…

Maybe an attack related to the recent OVH price increase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596282

Re: OVH Incident in Strasbourg

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post #3

UPDATE: not all datacenters are down, it seems like that in europe because ovh routing hasn't been updated so from our point of view everythign is down but really it is not :)

I think they don't know themselves what works. The CEO said GRA is down while I can access it without issues but that could be depending on where you try to connect from.

Re: OVH Incident in Strasbourg

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post #5
post #2

Some servers in GRA still appear to work if that's of any help. All data centres offline at once sounds more like an attack than a power failure in one location. According to them, there was a power failure in SBG but I don't see how that should affect routing in data centres several hundred miles away. https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928541667283623936 EDIT: Maybe related to the Cisco issue? https://blogs.cisc…

Maybe an attack related to the recent OVH price increase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596282

Doesn't look like DDOS though, would have to be a targeted attack on the infrastructure.

Their explanation will be really interesting. All those data centres are pretty useless if they have a single point of failure.

Re: OVH Incident in Strasbourg

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post #2

Some servers in GRA still appear to work if that's of any help. All data centres offline at once sounds more like an attack than a power failure in one location. According to them, there was a power failure in SBG but I don't see how that should affect routing in data centres several hundred miles away. https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928541667283623936 EDIT: Maybe related to the Cisco issue? https://blogs.cisc…

It seems more likely that their data centers aren't quite as isolated as they thought they'd be. The outage also appears to be limited to their locations in Europe.

Re: OVH Incident in Strasbourg

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post #6
post #3

UPDATE: not all datacenters are down, it seems like that in europe because ovh routing hasn't been updated so from our point of view everythign is down but really it is not :)

I think they don't know themselves what works. The CEO said GRA is down while I can access it without issues but that could be depending on where you try to connect from.

Where did he say GRA was down?
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