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A whole other part of this argument that could be made is about the inherent assumption that a ping timeout is caused by an event that only affects one machine.
by chrisfosterelli 10mo ago
A whole other part of this argument that could be made is about the inherent assumption that a ping timeout is caused by an event that only affects one machine.
- kstrauser 10mo agoFor sure. Having lived on IRC for a while many years ago, I assure any bystanders that this is assuredly not always the case.
- oooyay 10mo agoErgo isn't a federated server, it's meant to scale vertically
- KK7NIL 10mo agoThe internet is a "federated" network though, so their point still applies.
- oooyay 10mo agoNo, Ergo doesn't have netsplits because there isn't anything to split with. The point does not apply.
- chrisfosterelli 10mo agoThere are events that may affect more than one machine which are not netsplits. e.g. an ISP with common users experiences an outage, an IRC client with common users has a bug, common users within the same time zone have automated system updates run at the same time, the IRC server experiences an upstream network disruption affecting only some routes, a regional power outage occurs, a hosted bouncer service with common users has an outage, etc, etc, etc...
- paradox460 10mo agoImagine them trying to sue every person on one side of a netsplit
- eek2121 10mo ago...and back in my day (yeah I am becoming an old fart), it was dead simple to cause a netsplit on most networks.
- paradox460 10mo agoI'll admit to sending a couple of the messages that made Linksys routers restart. I also set up automatic k-lines on Snoonet for these very strings, years ago