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Been on Contabo Munich for two weeks and routing to EU is cooked. 15% loss to Frankfurt, sometimes worse. Tracert dies in Sofia half the time. Anyone else seeing this? Also which providers take XMR in TR region, need a backup
My MTR shows consistent loss at a carrier hotel in Sofia, which suggests a cross-border fibre problem. I have opened a ticket requesting transparency on whether this falls under their GDPR Article 32 obligations for network resilience. Here is the relevant excerpt from my logs:
Yeah I saw this too on my RackNerd box ran mtr for like an hour and it was dying in bulgaria every time I thought it was my config but guess not anyway Contabo takes xmr I think? Not sure about OVHcloud
Contabo takes XMR, OVHcloud does too
Actually, (if you look at (the (bgp.tools) path visualisation)) the OVHcloud prefix is being announced via (a (different (upstream))) than Contabo, yet both converge at (that (Sofia (IX))). So the fault is likely (the (submarine (cable (landing)))) or (a (construction (incident (near (the (border)))))). Helpful to compare:
mtr -r -c 100 target
Anyway I stayed up until 4am running packet captures on my KnownHost istanbul box and idk why I do this but the loss pattern looks like clockwork, every 90 seconds, which screams bufferbloat on a failing link. Here's my ugly bash one-liner:
while true; do ping -c 1 8.8.8.8 | grep time; sleep 1; done | tee pinglog.txt
90 second interval is brutal, definitely bufferbloat
watch -n 1 'ip route show | wc -l'This.