[17618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Network collapses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark R. Lindsey)
Sun Jun 7 22:22:19 1998
From: mark@vielle.datasys.net (Mark R. Lindsey)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 15:17:46 -0400
Reply-To: mark@vielle.datasys.net (Mark R. Lindsey)
To: nanog@merit.edu
If a large network with large amounts of nonportable space, like UUNET,
were to fail entirely (financially, or system-wide, e.g.), what would
happen to the address space that that network had assigned to its
customers?
When those customers go elsewhere for access, would the routing tables
be flooded with /24's?
Alternately, would that space be reclaimed by the registries, and all of
those customers be forced to renumber? How long would that take?
In a similar vein, how would the DNS act with millions more lame
delegations? (And what if all of the root servers were smurfed under at
the same time? ;^)
If this has been discussed elsewhere, I apologize for the bother, and
would appreciate a pointer to that discussion.
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Mark R. Lindsey, mark@datasys.net
Internet Engineering, DSS Online, LLC
Voice: 912.241.0607; Fax: 912.241.0190
(Wish I were there.)
