Internet crashes in Pakistan

[CajunCenturion]

Reference: Internet crashes in Pakistan

I can understand a router crashing, or a server crashing, but how does the Internet crash?

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[DPlank]

Cos all their DNS servers fell over?

[shrugs]

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[edfair]

Maybe a truck rolled down the parking lot and crashed through the storage room like was a good possibility several years ago in Reston. Or maybe the airconditioning failed.
You do remember those threat analyses, don't you? What were there, like 6 choke points in the US that would have taken it down? Particularly the one outside Washington.

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[PaulTEG]

No it gives it in the link, a power failure on the comms line, an undersea cable, and it's only gonna take 2 hours to fix ... ghotiY... non ... wonder what kind of hardware they're putting in there onder:

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[CajunCenturion]

I read the article and understand what happened in Pakistan, but that's not what's behind the question.

I question the headline that the Internet crashed. Yes, Pakistan lost access to it. Traffic was routed around Pakistan.

So my question is then, How does the Internet crash?

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[Dimandja]

That headline sells, is all.

Actually, I find the article itself to be less than honest. For instance that land line is not the only access to Internet that a nuclear power such as Pakistan has.

To illustrate, DR Congo (lowly embattled African country) has sattelite links for everything from cell phones to high speed Internet.

In fact the only people interviewed in this article were those that lost Internet access. No one else was of interest for that sensationalistic article.

 

[edfair]

I, like CC, understand the details, and my previous answer was more an attempt to call attention to the potentials everywhere.
Sure, the headline sells. But for those whose jobs are adversely impacted, the internet failed. They can't see the forest because their search times out. We, who supposedly understand, can't see their tree because our search times out. That is the hazard of having too few paths or of all of them passing through choke points.
Technically, I suppose, as long as 1 ISP is up and DNS is available the internet lives. Never mind the 404s.


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[Dimandja]

>I, like CC, understand the details, and my previous answer was more an attempt to call attention to the potentials everywhere.

You understood "the details" from that tabloidal article??? Wow. I must read it again.

 

[DPlank]

I don't think ed or CC meant the article, Dimandja.

I think they meant they understood the actual problems inherent in the technology.

I may be wrong, but that seemed obvious to me.

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[Dimandja]

Yes, of course. My bad.

 

[DrJavaJoe]

Where's Al Gore when you need him?


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[Dimandja]

>Where's Al Gore when you need him?

His Internet was failsafe. This Pakistani version is not patented by him.

 

[sleipnir214]

A followup. Pakistan is back online now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4664983.stm

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[BobRodes]

Al Gore must have paid them a visit......

 

[sleipnir214]

Naaaaah.

My money is on the fact that the pressure of the backlog of spam trying to enter that network blew out the blockage.


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