Weakest nuclear war ever.

[serinde]

When a pissing match between two network providers can cause the functional equivalent of the Grand Canyon between vast portions of TEH INTARWEB, I give a lot less credence to the vaunted capability of routing around damage.

Now, it's not all the fault of the base protocols &c. Mr. Networks noted that one of the spoiled brats providers in question was advertising routes for sites that they then refused to actually route to, for instance. And though we had a backup connection (what? preparedness? Say it ain't so!), it is...regrettable...that Con Ed had managed to fuck its routing somewhere along the line and nobody was aware of this until we tried to use it. Thankfully, this is all better now, and I can reach Penny Arcade again. Whee.

Nevertheless, I heartily wish disgusting, degenerative venereal diseases on the people responsible at Cogent & Level 3. Burn like sulphuric acid, you goat-felching fucktards.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, i'm sure you're shopping around now!

I've been waiting for a blowup like this to happen with the backbone providers. I'm surprised it's taken this long.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I'd heard that it had--that Level 3 depeered, um, XO I think a bit back, don't know why; and that Cogent had been variously kicked in the ass by some of their other peers for the same professed reason of lack of traffic equality.

I READ IT ON THE INTERNET, IT MUST BE TRUE

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

HOW COULD U READ IT ON THE INTARWEB IF U GOT DEPEARED LOL