Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem

Posted by sva_ 6 hours ago

Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem(apnews.com)

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mproud 4 hours ago|

Anyone else watch Season 2 of Hijack?

ngruhn 4 hours ago||

Is that news? Sounds like status quo.

LargoLasskhyfv 4 hours ago||

It's the heat.

Some system somewhere in need of cooling.

Does not get it, because BAHN.

Crapping out.

Cascades of disbelief.

R2D2-like cybernetic seizures.

Endless commuter pleasures.

No mischief at all.

Just bad techno-thrall...

porphyra 5 hours ago||

Is it just me or is the webpage broken with a redirect loop between:

* https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/german-train-service-suspende...

* https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/german-rail-service-suspended...

ChrisArchitect 5 hours ago||

AP source: https://apnews.com/article/germany-trains-halted-communicati...

sva_ 5 hours ago|

@dang please update if you see this

And merge with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651613

usernametaken29 5 hours ago||

Honestly can’t tell the difference between this and a regular day r/dbsucks

lyu07282 5 hours ago||

Happened before at a smaller scale, crazy high redundancies in GSM-R mean this is likely sabotage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2022_German_railway_at...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM-R

okanat 5 hours ago||

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be incompetence at this point.

sleepybrett 5 hours ago||

vibe coding the rail software.

Etheryte 5 hours ago|||

If you know anything at all about the Deutsche Bahn, you'll know that it's most likely self-sabotage, in other words, incompetence.

mschuster91 4 hours ago||

Current suspicion on the German rails reddit is a software update gone wrong.

My personal suspicion, GSM-R is 90s GSM, they'll likely have a fried HLR & VLR because in any GSM network these are fundamental, without them you can't even get roaming from public phone networks working as there is no way for the public network to authenticate GSM-R subscribers.

dgellow 5 hours ago|

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651552

fhdkweig 5 hours ago||

and submitted by the same user sva_

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sva_

gus_massa 5 hours ago||

The other article is only one sentence long. I guess the OP posted it and later found this that is a better source. (Un)luckily both reached the front page. Usually dang/tomhow will make a cleanup soon to avoid duplication and keep the discussion in a single thread.

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