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Well, 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://
by kiallmacinnes 7y ago
Well, 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..