Benoit Page-Guitard

Edge & Backbone Network Engineering Lead at @digitalocean. Ex-Canadian expat who lived in Australia, now back in Canada. Opinions are my own.

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@anurag_bhatia A bigger slice of 💩is still just 💩 at the end of the day.

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@Rvguy18 @ottawacity You can just go here and punch in your address:
https://t.co/CCsfX6gxBr

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@battleangelviv @cybertruck The two of you are so perfect for each other ❤️

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@anurag_bhatia Maybe Airtel should buy them

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@DrPeering @globalpeering Is that the SS Megaport emerging from the depths?

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@anurag_bhatia That seems to line up on our side as well. I'm not touching them with a 10 foot pole for the rest of the weekend though. We've had enough of their fun for one week.

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@anurag_bhatia Airtel lost yet more capacity out of India.. At this point they may as well just become a Jio customer.

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@flightradar24 Fire in the cabin (now under control)

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@anurag_bhatia @captn3m0 The only place I’ve seen them in Canada is at hospitals. When you might be unexpectedly waiting in emergency 6-8 hours and forgot to bring your power bank with you. Somehow that happens to enough people to make it profitable

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@battleangelviv Ventilated seats ftw

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@anurag_bhatia 🤣

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@anurag_bhatia Oh you did mention the return path via NTT. So yeah, that's definitely what you're hitting

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@anurag_bhatia I'd put big money on the return path being westbound via either TATA or NTT.

Unfortunately this has been a daily reality for months now due to very few undamaged cables still online between Japan and Singapore.

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@zastelatv @SteveDelDucaFan C'est parce qu'ils ne connaissent pas la joie de sacrer pour vrai, tabarnak!

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@anurag_bhatia In other words, the IP was definitely used for a Hong Kong GFE node at some point, but the PTR wasn't updated when they moved it to Mumbai.

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@anurag_bhatia I used to see out of date PTRs for their GFE (Google Front End) nodes all the time back in the day, including double or even triple PTR records for the same IPs sometimes. This seems a lot rarer nowadays, but I suspect there's still a manual process somewhere.

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@anurag_bhatia Nothing visible here, although we started seeing unusual worldwide ICMP-only drops since 20:40 UTC as well. Widespread across multiple networks, not just India.

UDP/TCP traffic is completely unaffected. Quite unusual. Might be a large-scale attack under way that we can't see.

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@anurag_bhatia Something broke again at 17:29 UTC. Same thing as before; routes out of India via 9498 still present, but traffic blackholed before exiting 9498.

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@anurag_bhatia Another day.. another Airtel dumpster fire 🫠

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@anurag_bhatia Something that does seem to have changed in the past hour is that Airtel routes to Europe are now either via 4755 or via T1s in Singapore.

I wonder if they lost another big chunk of India <-> EU backbone.