Internet outage history
France
Operational 20/20 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC
Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in France since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.
Overview
Last 90 days
Worst status per day, last 90 daysDaily reachability
last 30 daysOur probes · hosts reachable
last 72 hoursIODA · routes and active probing, % of normal
last 72 hoursLatency from our server (Germany)
last 72 hoursThe same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.
Incidents
All incidents
our probes and IODANo disruptions recorded in France since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.
Attacks and context
Context only — they don't change the status above.
DDoS attacks aimed at France · 7 days
Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.
- Types
- UDP Flood 57% · Mirai (UDP) Flood 30% · SYN Flood 9% · NTP Amplification 1%
- Duration
- 81% longer than 1 h · 10% under 20 min
- Size
- 76% under 500 Mbit/s · 1% over 10 Gbit/s
- Web attacks from
- Bucklog SARL 30% · OVH SAS 21% · Contabo GmbH 14%
Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar
6 possible hijacks of networks in France, 17+ route leaks involving it.
- Oct 27 01:11 AS6453 (US) · 3 address blocks · confidence 10/10
- Oct 29 03:10 AS200590 (KZ) · 2 address blocks · confidence 10/10
- Oct 26 12:34 AS5065 (US) · 2 address blocks · confidence 10/10
- Oct 26 08:06 AS200590 (KZ) · 2 address blocks · confidence 10/10
- Oct 23 14:52 AS5065 (US) · 2 address blocks · confidence 10/10
Long-term history
Before our monitoring: IODA archive
12 incidents · 7 blackouts · 2 partial outagesOutages in France detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.
| Started (UTC) | Duration | Worst level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 22:20 | 30 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 7% of normal |
| Jun 20, 2026 11:40 | 2 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 27% of normal |
| May 3, 2026 20:50 | 50 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 36% of normal |
| Aug 10, 2025 07:30 | 30 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal |
| Apr 30, 2025 16:40 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 67% of normal |
| Mar 29, 2025 10:10 | 3 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 30% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 20:10 | 4 hours | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 17:40 | 40 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal |
| Jul 6, 2024 11:00 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 74% of normal |
| Nov 19, 2023 12:40 | 2 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 20% of normal |
| Nov 8, 2022 06:40 | 50 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 43% of normal |
| Jul 2, 2022 05:10 | 40 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 40% of normal |
Government shutdowns and blocks
since 2019The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in France since 2019.
Provided by Internet Society.
Submarine cable incidents
- Mar 13, 2026 FLAG Atlantic-1 (FA-1)
Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.