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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. Is "The Register" temporarily disconnected too? by Wills · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Neither The Register's website nor DNS lookups on www.theregister.co.uk are working at present -- looks like it's offline.

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  2. The Register is unreachable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does that explain why "The Register" www.theregister.co.uk is not reachable?????