I'm more inclined to believe that it would be a solar conjunction actually.
The scenerio would be that they lost track of their bird and started
tracking the sun. Since we all know that old Sol is an excellant originating
point of radiated noise, surely with that much noise, and a solid lock on
it, the odds of its random noise being something decipherable are much more
acceptable than normal.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <[email protected]>
To: "Paul Vixie" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:07 AM
Subject: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)
Paul Vixie <[email protected]> writes:
i'm more inclined to blame the heavy solar wind this month and to assume
that chinanet's routers don't use ECC on the RAM containing their RIBs
and
that chinanet's router jockeys are in quite a sweat about this bad
publicity.
--
Paul Vixie
KI6YSY
That is likely to be an increasing problem in upcoming months/years.
Solar cycle 24 started in August '09; we're ramping up on the way out
of a more serious than usual sunspot minimum.
We've seen great increases in CPU and memory speeds as well as disk
densities since the last maximum (March 2000). Speccing ECC memory is
a reasonable start, but this sort of thing has been a problem in the
past (anyone remember the Sun UltraSPARC CPUs that had problems last
time around?) and will no doubt bite us again.
Rob Seastrom, AI4UC
