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Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

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Re: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

#11
> When I figured out the problem, I contacted a colleague at Moratel to let him know what was going on. He was able to fix the problem...

I wonder how he contacted his colleague. In this case, I presume that routing to other networks were unaffected. But in the general case, with a future of everything over IP, what will network engineers use to communicate about faults?

Re: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

#12
The author (Tom Paseka) wrote near the conclusion that himself addressed the Google's issue, by contacting a Moratel's engineer. Do you have the same feeling when reading the article? It sounds weird that Google did not triggered a recovery procedure on its own.

Maybe I see bad things everywhere and you may call paranoïd, but could it be some sort of ("false") advertising on the side of cloudfare?

Re: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

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post #11

> When I figured out the problem, I contacted a colleague at Moratel to let him know what was going on. He was able to fix the problem... I wonder how he contacted his colleague. In this case, I presume that routing to other networks were unaffected. But in the general case, with a future of everything over IP, what will network engineers use to communicate about faults?

cellphones ?

Re: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

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post #12

The author (Tom Paseka) wrote near the conclusion that himself addressed the Google's issue, by contacting a Moratel's engineer. Do you have the same feeling when reading the article? It sounds weird that Google did not triggered a recovery procedure on its own. Maybe I see bad things everywhere and you may call paranoïd, but could it be some sort of ("false") advertising on the side of cloudfare?

I'm not a network engineer, but it seems like the kind of thing that might be very hard to detect when you're already inside or near to the google.com domain. Or maybe CloudFlare just got there first.

I don't think it's necessary to call BS on Cloudflare without any kind of evidence at all.

Re: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

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post #9

“BGP is literally the glue of the Internet” - I think you’ll find BGP is figuratively the glue of the Internet ;)

It depends on how one defines virtual glue. But, hey, the whole thing might be moot.

http://xkcd.com/1108/

Re: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

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post #9

“BGP is literally the glue of the Internet” - I think you’ll find BGP is figuratively the glue of the Internet ;)

You do realise there's more than one meaning for "glue" these days, presumably (including "something that binds together")?

Re: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

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post #9

“BGP is literally the glue of the Internet” - I think you’ll find BGP is figuratively the glue of the Internet ;)

You do realise there's more than one meaning for "glue" these days, presumably (including "something that binds together")?

There's also more than meaning for "literally" these days.

Re: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

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post #11

> When I figured out the problem, I contacted a colleague at Moratel to let him know what was going on. He was able to fix the problem... I wonder how he contacted his colleague. In this case, I presume that routing to other networks were unaffected. But in the general case, with a future of everything over IP, what will network engineers use to communicate about faults?

cellphones ?

There's a trend to use VoIP on cellphones too (see LTE). So in the future this will not help at all.
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