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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. Huh? by ruvreve · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If this 5% isn't reachable then is it really on the net?

    Didn't this story run already? But I guess the slogan for this site is "News for Nerds" not "Breaking News for Nerds."

  2. Hmmm.... by jgerman · · Score: 2, Redundant

    If it's unreachable, it's not part of the net. Hence the word network. Therefore no part of the net is unreachable.

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