[125247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sun Apr 11 11:59:01 2010
In-Reply-To: <867hoet758.fsf_-_@seastrom.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:58:40 +0100
From: Michael Dillon <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> That is likely to be an increasing problem in upcoming months/years.
> Solar cycle 24 started in August '09; we're ramping up on the way out
> of a more serious than usual sunspot minimum.
I wonder what kind of buildings are less susceptible to these kinds
of problems. And is there a good way to test your data centre
to come up with some kind of vulnerability rating?
Would a Faraday cage be sufficient to protect against cosmic ray bit-flipping
and how could you retrofit a Faraday cage onto a rack or two of gear?
--Michael Dillon
