[73473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ship seized for cutting Sri Lanka's internet link
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Katz)
Tue Aug 24 12:50:27 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu, sgorman1@gmu.edu
From: Dave Katz <dkatz@juniper.net>
Date: 24 Aug 2004 09:47:15 -0700
In-Reply-To: <31df7f31d20d.31d20d31df7f@gmu.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
As of this writing, I have
learned that nearly the entire state of Minnesota was recently cut
off from the Internet for 13 hours because it had only one primary
connection to the global Net, and that link went down. If Minnesota,
of all places, is so vulnerable, one can imagine how tenuous many
international links must be.
Hm, I remember cutting off the entire Pacific Rim once, from my
basement in Michigan, after typing the wrong command. I had to call
Jeff Burgan to reboot the IBM RT at Ames to bring it back. I guess
things haven't changed all *that* much in 15 years.
