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Yeah, it did route around it, but not particularly well. The Internet kept
functioning, but it didn't do a very good job of it as evidenced by the
inability of me & a few others I talked to to get to /. during a certain
time period and my ability to get to hotmail due to people not getting on on
the other side of the country. Of course the survivability of the Internet
is really just an illusion. You could, with a very few small disasters, take
out enough pipelines to practically shut the Internet down or just take out
the ability to register new domains and change IPs on existing ones. That
last part of the process is pretty freaking centralized. Although, if you
took out a few key organizations there you could resolve a good deal of the
conflict and make things a lot smoother.
-Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
82. I will not shoot at any of my enemies if they are standing in front of
the
crucial support beam to a heavy, dangerous, unbalanced structure.
-- Peter's Evil Overlord List,
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
From: "Bill Jonas" <Bill_Jonas@email.msn.com>
Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Subject: Re: [Plug] Gas Blunder
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:46:56 -0400
I was reading about this earlier... and while it's annoying for everybody,
it actually should turn out to be a Good Thing (tm). The article mentions
some of the ops being confused as to why most of the data stream is being
routed through Europe... well, think about it. The Internet is doing
exactly what it's supposed to do! It was *designed* to do this, to reroute
information around a breakage, rather than lose the data stream altogether.
Of course, that doesn't really change what I think about those IDIOTS at
that gas company. :)
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick R <laktar@hotmail.com>
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:49 PM
Subject: [Plug] Gas Blunder
> In case you're wondering why you can't access /. right now or why you
can
> access hotmail, it's because some gas company in Ohio cut 4 OC-192
lines,
> knocking out about 40 Gbps of bandwidth. You can read all about it at
> http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2343896,00.html
>
> -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
>
>
> If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
> 26. No matter how attractive certain members of the rebellion are, there
is
> probably someone just as attractive who is not desperate to kill me.
> Therefore, I will think twice before ordering a prisoner sent to my
> bedchamber.
> -- Peter's Evil Overlord List,
> http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
>
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