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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Jul 7 16:31:14 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0907072220090.15149@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:29:07 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
>> In a real crisis, redundancy rules.
>
> ... and simplicity.
>
> It's always "fun" when those outages pages rely on sql backends etc,
> so they're capable of tens or hundreds of users, so they look fine
> normally. When an outage happens and people really need the
> information and want it, things stop working.
>
> I've been advocating a distributed system with static HTML pages
> being generated and pushed out when things change. Huge load
> capability, you can put it anycasted at multiple IXes so it's
> geographically and ISP resiliant, larger ISPs can even request to
> get their own mirror. Keeping it simple.
>
This would seem to be ideal for P2P, which is decentralized and has
proven quite resilient under attack.
> No takers yet though, people seem to have too much confidence in
> complicated, centralized, nice looking solutions.
>
Have you talked to the guys at BitTorrent ? I could make introductions
during the Stockholm IETF if you need them.
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>
>
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
AmericaFree.TV
