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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."

4 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. Eveything is fine... by OlivierB · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Allofmp3 is still live and kicking.

    No interuption of service from where I stand :-)

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  2. "packets loosing their way" by sargon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How did the packets loose their way? Was their way hog-tied, fenced, locked in a barn?

    Or did you mean "packets losing their way?"

  3. Re:in times like these, the 'net is a godsend by goldspider · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "How do you think geeks all over the world just found out about the power failure?"

    I hope you're trolling, but in case you're not, of what importance is it that "geeks all over the world" know about this power failure?

    It's a pretty safe bet that those in a position to fix the problem are already aware of it. They don't need Slashdot's help.

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  4. Warez and Serialz by solitarian · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Damn! now where am i going to get my pirated software from.