[83057] in Cypherpunks
Re: Routing around damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sat Jul 12 03:41:04 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970711175850.26491B-100000@ece>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:53:09 -0700
To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
>On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Anonymous wrote:
>
>> Remember "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around
>> it"? I'd be happy with an internet that interprets DAMAGE as damage and
>> routes around it.
>
>It does.. It's just that when you lose a *large* access point, the impact
>is significant. (I think that's what happened here...)
Seems to me that having only a few, heavily trafficed, NAPs is a
topological weakness in the Net which needs to be delt with soon.
--Steve
