[olug] Will Internet Partitions Rise?

[Nick Veys]

Mission critical stuff should never be run through a single source
anyway.  Any well planned system would survive this.  Good DNS hosts
as a small example usually have a couple different providers and
spread themselves geographically as well as provider-ally.

On 10/7/05, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Two recent events show the human reasons causing fragmentation of the
> internet, the LVLT vs Cogent dispute and control over the root name servers.
> For now, i will ignore the root DNS server dispute because i know very
> little about it and is not a primary concern. However, it seems arbitrary
> fragmentation generated by the corporate players will only increase, but
> since i do not know anything about how Tier 1 ISPs operate, it is only a
> guess. My question is, will this temporary disconnect change how confidently
> you advise customers who need mission critical internet access?
>   The following Slashdot article which more often than not paints LVLT as
> responsible for disconnecting an untold number of Cogent Communications
> customers:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/05/10/07/147224.shtml?tid=95&tid=187&tid=230
>  http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/68251
>  p.s. My LVLT stock will only sink lower.
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