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Electricity Outage Puts Routing to a Tough Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-ahead-and-replicate-the-meme dept.

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."

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  1. Probably unrelated by SIGALRM · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.
    And in other news, spam volumes suddenly and unexpectedly plummeted.
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  2. In soviet russia... by Winckle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh nevermind...

    1. Re:In soviet russia... by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Funny

      Power fails you.

  3. no more all off mp3 .com by acomj · · Score: 4, Funny

    no more all off mp3 .com

    Obviously the MPAA/RIAA are to blame..

  4. Re:LOL by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    Iron? Aluminum? Which one do you prefer?

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  5. Yes, but... by rewt66 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did kremvax stay up?

  6. Odd.... by MarkGriz · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't seem to log into my bank account to update my out-of-date account information.
    Wonder if these are somehow related.

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  7. Re:No spam for 4 hours! by joeytmann · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whats your email addres?

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