The Status of Routing Reform — How Fragile is the Internet? 139
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from the hopefully-comcast-is-not-the-standard-bearer dept.
from the hopefully-comcast-is-not-the-standard-bearer dept.
crimeandpunishment points out the Associated Press's look (as carried by SkunkPost) "at an issue the government has been aware of for more than 20 years, but still isn't fixed and continues to cause Internet outages: a flaw in the routing system that sends data from carrier to carrier. Most outages are innocent and fixed quickly, but there's growing concern the next one could be devastating. A general manager at Renesys Corporation, which tracks the performance of Internet data routes, says, 'It amazes me every day when I get into work and find it's working.'"
between this and that dnssec thing... (Score:5, Funny)
...i'm glad I decided to wait for internets2 before i get online.
[posted via FIDOnet]
Re:between this and that dnssec thing... (Score:3, Funny)
No, it's on dogs. See, he posted from Fidonet! Dogs carry around TCPIP packets.
Re:Use phone to manually change routes? (Score:5, Funny)
How about carrying an iridium phone?
Re:The Internet is not going to end (Score:2, Funny)
Clarke's Third Law (Score:3, Funny)
Or, as Arthur C. Clarke put it, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Re:between this and that dnssec thing... (Score:3, Funny)
Dogs carrying TCP/IP packets... is that more reliable than RFC1149?
It's certainly more reliable than when they tried using cats. Not only was it very high latency but sometimes packets would get dropped or lost under the fridge. In most cases, the data wouldn't get delivered at all. Add to that the inability of RFC1149 to operate in the same spectrum as cats (too many mangled packets) and you can see that dogs were clearly the better choice.