In einer eMail vom 28.09.2010 19:06:57 Westeuropäische Sommerzeit schreibt
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> Tony, I take your remark as a pro and not as a con. The BGP concept
> as of today is such that you cannot
> harm all by harming just a special well confined subset thereof
> (like e.g. the ALT-routers).
There is box, GRE tunnel, and underlying physical redundancy. If an
ALT-router gets taken out, or simply crashes, Map-Requests have
alternate paths to take.
Dino
This is not that cyber-ware scenario. Maybe I should start asking the
question how many ALT-routers would be needed to match the current internet
with
its 10 000 DFZ-routers. (The smaller the number, the more vulnerable.The
bigger the number the less effective, right?)
Imho when the entire internet's operation dpends on the well-functioning of
a small set of network elements (like the ALT-routers) then there is some
potential danger due to the concept:
a) cyber-war:what if this set of network elements is concurrently
attacked ?
b) peace: what if this set of network elements is politically controlled by
one mighty authority?
(for comparison: Note that Europe tries to launch Galileo
although GPS works pretty well)
Heiner
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