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Network Blackout

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-see-um dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Renesys put together a special report on the effects of the recent blackout on routing and network reachability on the Internet. It includes a cool animation of networks dropping off the internet (presumably as a result of the power outage). It is interesting to see how localized some of the outage was--networks in New York state right up to the Vermont border go dark while everything on the other side of the border is quiet. New York City obviously gets clobbered."

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  1. I can see my house from here. by Purosesuchi-Zu · · Score: 5, Funny

    That little red dot at the tip of LI is my home LAN going down...

  2. What's that I see? by Exiler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that a red circle on the webserver hosting that gif?

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  3. Apology by ticklemeozmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sorry. I had apparently text'd most of my friends saying electricity was poor, and almost immediately word spread around the north east..

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  4. Re:backup? by soliaus · · Score: 5, Funny
    I would find it hard to believe that in the USA they don't have similar systems?

    We prefer the rat on a wheel approach to power backup. It usually works, we just forgot to feed them so it failed on such a wide spread application

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  5. Go Canada!!! by akorvemaker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Woo hoo! Notice how all the outages are south of the border? We are so good! ;-)

  6. Slashdotting animation by psylent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would love to see an animation of a webserver being slashdotted.