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Take out the root servers. It will all grind to a halt. :)
J.
So why do I love when I still feel pain?
When does it end, when is my work done?
Why am I lone and why do I feel
that I carry a sword through a battlefield?
--VNV Nation
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Nick R wrote:
> 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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