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Electricity Outage Puts Routing to a Tough Test
infofarmer writes "Today at about 11:30 MSD (GMT+4) a major electricity outage in Moscow, Russia brought new meanings to words like "uninterruptible", "redundant" and "uptime" for network administrators, who haven't experienced such harsh and unexpected power failures since the USSR got its Internet connection. Half of the city is totally out of electricity - including subway and the most important traffic exchange point, half of the top russian sites went down, including www.mail.ru, www.rambler.ru, www.lenta.ru, some of them haven't been brought up yet. IP packets going from ADSL users in Moscow to some local sites got rerouted to somewhere in London and then back to Scandinavia, where they met their "No route to host" deadend. Other routers found themselves in a loopback, which made many packets get dropped with TTL expired. The point is that most of popular servers have got two or three mainline Internet connections, but lack of BGP/RIP2/whatever configuration resulted in packets losing their way to hosts."
Sigs cause cancer.
The msk-ix went down, and now that its back up, your going to have it slashdotted?
Can someone give this guy a metal?
You are confusing me with someone who cares.
Oh nevermind...
no more all off mp3 .com
Obviously the MPAA/RIAA are to blame..
must have been males- didn't stop to ask for directions
bride.ru is still up.
Good thing I saved all my russian pr0n.
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That's crazy. These sites were down before they hit Slashdot.
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An alternate headline should be:
Correct router configuration can be difficult!
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Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
Last night I lost power for about 3 hours. My laptop worked. My cable modem stayed connected on battery backup. My router is plugged in and died.
Russia's connections at least made a couple of hops before dying. Mine died on 1 hop. It did illustrate the uselessness of a battery-backed up modem on my network, however.
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Did kremvax stay up?
I can't seem to log into my bank account to update my out-of-date account information.
Wonder if these are somehow related.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
but lack of BGP/RIP2/whatever configuration resulted in packets loosing their way to hosts."
Those mischevious packets. Unraveling networks where'er they roam.
sewer water is being dumped into the Moscow river
and
who gives a shit about Internet?
What exactly are you trying to say here?
Infuriate left and right
Someone should blackmail the Moscow electrical grid. "If you ever want to send spam again, fork over $200 and send it to this address..."
packets loosing their way to hosts
So by the time the packets got to the hosts, they were really loose? You could probably cram a lot of data in to these packets by the time they got there. I imagine the real problem is that these loose packets are filling up with all kinds of foreign matter as they pass through the Scandinaval regions.
The RIAA's crack anti-mp3 commando teams are rumored to be cutting a bloody swath through street markets and datacenters across the city.
That explains why there was less spam in my inbox today.
Whats your email addres?
Insert funny smart-ass comment here.
Perhaps these guys touched live wires ^^
:)
Off-topic, but an interesting read
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>> We were hit by network outage, nothing worked (even Slashdot :( ) for about 30 minutes.
;)
Yeah, but Slashdot doesn't work anyway.
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