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Blackout Shows Net's Fragility
It doesn't come easy wrote to mention a ZDNet article discussing a recent outage between Level 3 Communications and Cogent Communication. A business feud inadvertently highlighted the fragility of the Internet's skeleton. From the article: "In theory, this kind of blackout is precisely the kind of problem the Internet was designed to withstand. The complicated, interlocking nature of networks means that data traffic is supposed to be able to find an alternate route to its destination, even if a critical link is broken. In practice, obscure contract disputes between the big network companies can make all these redundancies moot. At issue is a type of network connection called 'peering.' Most of the biggest network companies, such as AT&T, Sprint and MCI, as well as companies including Cogent and Level 3, strike "peering agreements" in which they agree to establish direct connections between their networks. "
Ask Slashdot.
We are currently designing two huge web services projects. The problem with them both is that they need to be available 24/7. Large backbone blackouts like this one give us a huge problem. How do we provide services without having multiple servers scattered throughout the internet?
So you might say, "Well, have servers scattered throughout the internet!" That's expensive for a project that is built out of our own pockets with adsense money. Plus, keeping databases in sync across multiple long-distance servers is painful/expensive as well.
If the web structure was more dependable, this wouldn't be as much of an issue. Local redundancy is easy compared to nationwide/worldwide redundancy.
How have some of you jedi developers tackled this problem?
The RIAA's lawyers are currently working on documents to stop this new threat to the entertainment industry!
Yeah, they'll be sure to get this right...
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Yeah, because everywhere has access to multiple ISPs, fuck tard. I have 1 dialup and 1 cable. That's it. Period.
Stop with the "it works for me!" bullshit. You just sound like a fucking dick.
would see it's packet routed
"its".