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A comment on Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem. Parent comment

Re:Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem by jmull on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:14PM (#36618272)
Why does there have to be just one cable?
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Re:Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem by withinboredom on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:29PM (#36618499)
Do you think there are two cables that are never bundled in the same underground tube?

All the redundancy in the world can’t protect you from some random person digging in the wrong place.

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Re:Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem by jmull on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:13PM (#36619313)
Sure, maybe the underground tube was breached while someone was moving goalposts?
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