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On Feb 18, 2012 8:21 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> > Indeed. In fact, easier than that. |
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> > Just inject false BGP routes into one of the backbone level routers, and |
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> > see how wide the Internet becomes 'impacted'. Do it to maybe 5 or 6 |
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> > other routers that watch guard over the transatlantic and transpacific |
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> > routes, and watch as the Internet fold upon itself. |
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> > I was once a certified Network Engineer before I became a System Admin, |
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> > so I know. The soft underbelly of the Intartubes is depressingly very |
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> > vulnerable. |
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> > Rgds, |
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> Sounds like the internet could be switched off. So, next question, how |
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> easy would it be to get it going again? Hours? Days? Weeks? |
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1 router? In THEORY, 24 hours (but see below). |
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5 routers? Not sure. The unoptimized route due to the loss of optimal |
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routing info will severely impact everything. Maybe two or three weeks. |
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Maybe more than one month. |
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Heck, when a major Internet hub (i.e., one of the backbone routers) in |
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Taiwan got hit by an earthquake, it took almost one month after the router |
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got recommissioned before things return to normal. |
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Rgds, |
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