Partly for historical reasons, a U.S. manufacturing concern that shall remain unnamed runs its day–to–day operations on a server in India. Usually this is invisible to a person sitting in front of the client software because the response time is surprisingly good. Today the same user sits glumly, unable to connect to the server. Traceroute shows a route out through Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo to Hong Kong with a ping time around one third of a second. Between Hong Kong and Alexandria however, something has clearly gone quite wrong. Some pings get through to Alexandria, Bahrain and Mumbai but ping times and timeouts don't look promising. Apparently something grim happened to a submarine fibre near Alexandria. Our aforementioned user may find little comfort in the knowlege that he is in good company and perhaps make use of the time by reading a good book.
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