Network Blackout
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."
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).
-- john