2009/12/14 Christopher Woods <[email protected]> > > > > > Ah, but that is the very point of the internet. The very point of IP. The > very design. > > The net was designed to work even if nukes were dropped on the world. No > central control means network survival. > > > > ...Until one of only two core LINX routers has a senior moment or Google > decides to bork its routing ;) (cf. last week's massive disruption and > recent intercontinental slowness courtesy of the Almighty G) >
I didn't say it would work WELL if you nuked the world, but you can bomb bits of the network and it still works. Unusually for me, I'm not up for testing this as I can't see the outcome being *better *than being able to speculate on the result. > > The UK still relies on a surprisingly small number of backbone carriers, > and it seems that the UK internet infrastructure is still amazingly > brittle. My impression is that ja.net is *still* more resilient than the > public IP space by virtue of just how many HE nodes there are throughout the > UK - and the fact that CERN also uses it for GRID). I'd put my money on the > Universities having intersite connectivity longer after the public WWW going > down 8) > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
