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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. Florida? by soliaus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What the hell is a router in florida doing going out when it isnt even in the blackout? On the day of the blackout, in Las Vegas (NV), I was in Best Buy. I dont know how or why, but the power there went off too for about 15 minutes. Weird.

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  2. just got off the phone with verizon by gimpboy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    i told them my dsl had been choking off and on for the last day and that my ip address had been changing on the hour. now i get to see pittsburghs own special dot on the map. it's quite comforting :).

    the good news is that they told me it should be fixed in 4 hours (that was two hours ago).

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