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5% of the Net is Unreachable

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-never-the-spammer-percent dept.

dasheiff writes "A BBC Story says US researchers reveal that up to 5% of the internet is completely unreachable. However the most interesting part is that they reported that many of the lost net sites flare into life briefly when being used to send spam or to launch attacks on other parts of the net."

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  1. Ironic by Scutter · · Score: 5, Funny

    That link appears to be unreachable from my network.

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    1. Re:Ironic by homebru · · Score: 2, Funny
      That link appears to be unreachable from my network.

      Right now, I can't get to BBC, The Guardian, or The Register.

      Maybe they've shut the uk domain down for boxing day.

  2. In related news... by Brento · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article also reports that approximately 13% of network admins are unreachable. These are the same people believed to be responsible for leaving Windows NT/2000 machines serving web pages without any service packs or security patches. These admins surface from time to time when they respond to said spam.

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  3. Content-free article by fader · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here, let me sum up for you.

    Spammers hide on the 'net by playing with unsecured routers.

    What worries me is that it took someone three years to figure this out...

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  4. Only 5%? by at_18 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's funny, when I try to send replies to all my spam, it seems that 100% of the net is unreachable...

  5. slashdotted? by mrroot · · Score: 4, Funny

    5% of all internet sites unreachable?
    ...maybe they were slashdotted

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  6. Spammers, may they rest in the damnation of hell by el'gwato · · Score: 5, Funny

    My war on spam begins with all Spammers, but it does not end there. It will not end until every spamming group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.

    These spamists spam not merely to waste bandwidth, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every piece of unsolicited mail, they hope that genuine e-mailers grow fearful, retreating from cyber space and forsaking news groups. They stand against me, because I stand in their way.

    I am not deceived by their pretenses to piety. I have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the spamist ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing bandwidth to serve their advertising visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded trash cans.

    My response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated replies.
    I should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic e-mails to ISP's, visible to News groups, and covert operations, secret even in success. I will starve spamists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from ISP to ISP, until there is no refuge or no rest. And I will pursue ISP's that provide aid or safe haven to spammers. Every ISP, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with me, or you are with the spamists.

    From this day forward, any ISP that continues to harbor or support spamists will be regarded by me as a hostile regime.

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  7. maybe it's because by mrroot · · Score: 5, Funny

    at any given time, 5% of all the Windows servers out there are busy rebooting

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    1. Re:maybe it's because by NerdSlayer · · Score: 4, Funny

      at any given time, 5% of all the Windows servers out there are busy rebooting.

      I think it's closer to 3%, actually. Slashdot is linking to the other 2%.

  8. Public addresses on Private networks by ethaz · · Score: 4, Funny
    I can't tell you how often I have had customers demand public IP addresses for a private Frame Relay network with no Internet connection.



    More than once, I've said "Here you are, you get an entire Class A because we think you are so great. Your adresses are 10.x.x.x"

  9. If only by gila_monster · · Score: 4, Funny

    it happened to be the 5% not worth viewing.

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  10. Reminds me of George Carlin by gvonk · · Score: 3, Funny

    "So when they counted the census results last year, they noticed that 1.5 to 2 percent of the population went uncounted.... How do they know that?"

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  11. Thats the @home Part of the Internet by quakeaddict · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thats the @home Part of the Internet....

    enough said.

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  12. Priorities by r_j_prahad · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only time I worry is when 127.0.0.1 becomes unreachable.

  13. Re:Unreachable? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but I believe the question was 'If it is unreachable, is it really part of the Internet? '. And as soon as you think about it, post a reply to the 'falling tree in the forest' question, and might want to touch on the 'chicken before egg' problem, and while you at it, we would all like to know if the Hitch Hikers Guild to the Galaxy is correct about 'the answer to life'.

  14. My part of the 5% by Rasvar · · Score: 4, Funny

    is an XP box that I refuse to leave powered up when I am not using it. Nothing like a patch a day security.

  15. How unreachable? by Darth+RadaR · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe it's just the 5% of pr0n sites that they don't have passwords to?
    :^)

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  16. 5% ? It's a lot more! by tadas · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's gotta be more than 5%. I generally can't connect to *any* link on the front page of this site...

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  17. Even worse by rudy_wayne · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even worse than the 5% that is unreachable is the 90 percent that is unusable.