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?
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
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#12Maybe I see bad things everywhere and you may call paranoïd, but could it be some sort of ("false") advertising on the side of cloudfare?
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#13> 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?
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#14The 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 don't think it's necessary to call BS on Cloudflare without any kind of evidence at all.
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#15“BGP is literally the glue of the Internet” - I think you’ll find BGP is figuratively the glue of the Internet ;)
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#17“BGP is literally the glue of the Internet” - I think you’ll find BGP is figuratively the glue of the Internet ;)
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#18“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")?
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#20> 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 ?