Internet2 Knocked Out By Homeless Man?
from the nuclear-disaster,-huh? dept
The original purpose of the internet was supposed to be a network that the government could continue to use even after a nuclear attack. The whole point is that it's supposed to figure out ways to route around damage. However, when it came to Internet2, apparently designers didn't pay as much attention to that kind of stability. The news today is that a homeless man in Boston tossed a cigarette on a mattress, setting off a two-alarm fire that happened to knock out the Internet2 connection between New York and Boston. It's true that Internet2 is supposed to be experimenting with different methods of building network infrastructure, but you would think that redundancy would have been considered a feature worth keeping.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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ROTFLOL!!! XD XD XD
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But yeah, I2 is not likely to ever get that kind of adoption. It's more valuable as an experimental network for testing new ideas and protocols on a scale resembling the real thing for consideration by standards bodies.
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it hasn't been knocked out by a nuclear attack,
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re: AndyC
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_scare
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um...yeah
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Nuclear War
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Re: Nuclear War
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stress testing
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Not a new problem
And I've lost count of the number of times a major fiber has been cut by thieves looking for copper to steal..
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Too fast
Also the military most likely won't lose their connectivity so it won't do anything to knock it down just to give the military issues.
---Can you imagine Iran in charge of part of the internet? They'd shut it down until all the porn was removed. And that's just not nice!!!--"Me"
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fire alarm
Justin Pakosky
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What ever happened to Bum Fights dot com?
It is a slippery slope we are on!
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