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Andreas Bogk (ich@andreas.org)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:00:55 +0200
On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 08:01:36AM -0700, Alex Alten wrote:
> You are making it sound worse than it is. The underlying network
> routing infrastructure is designed to be extremely robust in the face
> adverse conditions (originally it was nuclear attack). I'm only aware
Resistance against nuclear attacks has never been a design goal of
the Internet[0], and the Internet will not resist a well-organized attack
against a handful of key points.
Killing all the root name servers would have disastrous results, and killing
some crucial routers such as mae-east and mae-west, or the de-cix in Germany,
would drive the load on the remaining routers and connections to a totally
inacceptable level.
Andreas
[0] Read "Where wizards stay up late". And please don't spread the nuke myth.
-- "And oh! It was as though the heavens opened and God handed down a client-side OS so beautiful, so graceful, and so elegant that a million Microsoft developers couldn't have invented it even if they had a hundred years and a thousand crates of Jolt cola." -- LANTIMES about Linux
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:58