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The internet is specifically designed to route around downed links such that there is no SPOF, that’s the theory anyway. However, when major backbones go down
by bluejekyll 7y ago
The internet is specifically designed to route around downed links such that there is no SPOF, that’s the theory anyway.
However, when major backbones go down it takes it a while to recover.
- kiallmacinnes 7y agoWell, kinda! Just look at this recent CloudFlare blog post[1]. It's true, theres no Single Point of Failure - there are MANY points of failure ;) [1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-...
- isostatic 7y agoThe internet, like the road network is designed to cope with failures - even if a major problem leads to congestion. We build services on top of that that don't cope with failures.
- kiallmacinnes 7y agoDoes this change anything though? The internet has many of these SPOF services. And even more AS's who through malice or fluke can take trigger a failure of those SPOFs + more. At the end of the day, that sounds like a massive pile of SPOFs that just barely keep up..