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One Broken Router Takes Out Half the Internet?
Silent Stephus writes "I work for a smallish hosting provider, and this morning we experienced a networking event with one of our upstreams. What is interesting about this, is it's being caused by a mis-configured router in Europe — and it appears to be affecting a significant portion of the transit providers across the Internet. In other words, a single mis-configured router is apparently able to cause a DOS for a huge chunk of the Net. And people don't believe me when I tell them all this new-fangled technology is held together by duct-tape and baling wire!"
Just a short "Spelling Nazi" break: It's spelled "baling" wire, not "bailing" wire.
Baling wire is wire used for strapping bales of hay together. I'm not entirely how one would use wire for bailing out a sinking boat, but if you can figure it out then you can call it "bailing" wire. Until then, please spell correctly.
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But this is seriously fucking up my day. First I discover that the idiots at my college (hey, it's a recession, I decided to finish my degree) deactivated the account I've had for ages on a system I need for class, and lost all records pertaining to it.
Then after I'm told it's fixed, I go to work on it today. Won't take my password. Can't access Gmail to send a goddamn e-mail to the one person my professor found that actually knows root on the system (it's an old alpha running Tru64) for hours. Then when I finally get a password, log in, tweak my settings, all that - I discover that I can't access the directory where my assignment is supposed to be.
At first I thought it was my usual ISP bullshit, reset my cable modem a few times. Problem kept happening. Can't access sites for shit, took me hours to get mails out to this "admin", and now it's after 5PM and I can't get access to this fucking directory because of this fucking bullshit!
Anyone want to pitch in on a plane ticket for me to go there and kill this fucking router admin? I promise I'll post the videos on the net for you. One "network administrator" force-fed a smashed-up router (probably a Cisco) and then garrotted in his network closet.
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They need to replace it with a network that is designed to survive a nuclear attack. Oh wait, hang on....
Wish I had mod points today. Parent should already be SCORE:5 Funny. Apparently not enough Slashdotters know the history/evolution of the net.