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Flubflow · 26-11-2003, 13:24

I was led to believe that if one or more parts of the internet infrastruscture fails then the traffic automatically gets rerouted elsewhere. This robustness was supposed to be a feature of the internet. Obviously not in the case of last night. The traffic must be being rerouted now as the main cable is still supposed to be knackered. Why did it take so long for the major ISPs to intervene and manually introduce a workaround? Who knows, but you can bet questions are being asked and hopefully they will have a better plan in future so that this sort of failure does not cause such a massive outage again (and pigs will fly over the NTL offices).

26-11-2003, 13:24	#117
Flubflow Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Teesside Posts: 1,566	Re: MERGED - Connection problems in Bromley I was led to believe that if one or more parts of the internet infrastruscture fails then the traffic automatically gets rerouted elsewhere. This robustness was supposed to be a feature of the internet. Obviously not in the case of last night. The traffic must be being rerouted now as the main cable is still supposed to be knackered. Why did it take so long for the major ISPs to intervene and manually introduce a workaround? Who knows, but you can bet questions are being asked and hopefully they will have a better plan in future so that this sort of failure does not cause such a massive outage again (and pigs will fly over the NTL offices).