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Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

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167 points voytec | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 18:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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niemandhier ◴[21 Nov 24 07:40 UTC] No.42202012[source]▶
I have workloads on hetzner data centers in Finnland and Germany. Hetzner owns part of that cable, to connect those sites.

Tracerout gives me a path like this spine5.cloud2.fsn1.hetzner.com -> core22.fsn1.hetzner.com -> core5.fra.hetzner.com -> core53.sto.hetzner.com -> core31.hel1.hetzner.com

Which is worse than before, but still works for me.

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voytec ◴[21 Nov 24 09:26 UTC] No.42202523[source]▶
My route from Poland to dedi box leased from Hetzner in Finland currently goes through AS1299 / twelve99.net (Warsaw->Talinn->Helsinki) peering, and there's a slight increase in latency since the cable cut. On a normal day, it's Poland -> Hetzner in Germany -> Hetzner in Finland. I'm guessing that the situation hurts companies like Hetzner financially.
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1. Hamuko ◴[21 Nov 24 14:33 UTC] No.42204657[source]▶
I assume they need to pony up to get the cable repaired (unless there's insurance against such thing) but I'm not sure if I see the cable connection itself being a huge financial hit. Submarine cables getting damaged is fairly normal, and from what I've read, it should be back up by the end of the month.