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How One Clumsy Ship Caused A Major Net Outtage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-redial-the-modem dept.

Ant writes "Here is an interesting world map of various Internet connections, showing how it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down the internet for millions."

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  1. Re:Should be: How bad network design... by GreggBz · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Why or why does this keep getting repeated on Slashdot?!

    TCP/IP is specifically designed to recover from link outages, if it doesn't, you've got an improperly designed and/or operated (statically, as opposed to dynamically, routed) network.


    TCP/IP has nothing in it, specifically, to deal with outages and alternate routes.
    BGP is designed for this.
    Spanning Tree also. That's a layer 2 protocol usually only in LAN environments.

  2. Re:Should be: How bad network d by slashdotmsiriv · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "TCP/IP is specifically designed to recover from link outages, if it doesn't, you've got an improperly designed and/or operated (statically, as opposed to dynamically, routed) network"

    That would be BGP, the interdomain routing protocol. TCP/IP is designed to recover from packet losses not day-long link outages.