Who broke the Internet?
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Who broke the Internet?
Sweden lost connection to the internet for an hour so the Telegraph tells us.
Sweden loses its internet connection - Telegraph
If true surely this is a first and someone must be looking for a new job? A complete loss of a country's connectivity!
Any Swedish PPRuNers or UK businesses impacted by this?
Seems to have been caused by caching. I pity the folks who ran the script!
Sweden loses its internet connection - Telegraph
If true surely this is a first and someone must be looking for a new job? A complete loss of a country's connectivity!
Any Swedish PPRuNers or UK businesses impacted by this?
Apparently a single missing full stop at the end of the code meant that the Domain Name Systems (DNS) failed to recognise .se as the “top-level" (country-wide) domain.
Good thing to do?
Maybe they did it deliberately?
Strikes me as a good thing to do. The Internet only started less than 30 years ago, and human kind and everything else on this planet had existed perfectly well without it for thousands of years...........
Shakespeare didn't need it, neither did da Vinci, and the Victorian engineers achieved rather a lot without it.
All those traders at the Cape seemed to do quite well for hundreds of years without it.
My garden would be in better condition if it didn't exist.
Strikes me as a good thing to do. The Internet only started less than 30 years ago, and human kind and everything else on this planet had existed perfectly well without it for thousands of years...........
Shakespeare didn't need it, neither did da Vinci, and the Victorian engineers achieved rather a lot without it.
All those traders at the Cape seemed to do quite well for hundreds of years without it.
My garden would be in better condition if it didn't exist.
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This isn't a first. A few months ago parts of West Africa lost internet connectivity for a few days.
During that time there was a marked decrease in the amount of scam emails coming in. Pure coincidence of course.
During that time there was a marked decrease in the amount of scam emails coming in. Pure coincidence of course.
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Questions,questions
What happened, where and why ?. The internet is a beautifull cobbled togather bag O'Nails. - Its great for things like PPRuNe, but as a medium for "Command and Control" its origional purpose or commerce and communication,its now primary function. A new structure is needed. The internet lacks a fundamental layer in its structure and that is; authentification (of users by other users). where is this request stream comming from ? is/are it/they reputeable - A though one to fix.
A great idea in theory but flaky in practice. A great example of a great idea that gradually fell apart because its scale of use and function exploded outside the universe of discourse of its origional domain of purpose.
I wonder if every internet connection could be secure in the Secure Sockets sense. (The little padlock to you and me.)
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A great idea in theory but flaky in practice. A great example of a great idea that gradually fell apart because its scale of use and function exploded outside the universe of discourse of its origional domain of purpose.
I wonder if every internet connection could be secure in the Secure Sockets sense. (The little padlock to you and me.)
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I wonder if every internet connection could be secure in the Secure Sockets sense. (The little padlock to you and me.)
Just look at all the mess surrounding IPv6 if you don't believe me .....
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Just look at all the mess surrounding IPv6 if you don't believe me .....
That was in 1994.
(admittedly I did keep them talking as the saleswoman was an utter fox)
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Wasn't it still IPnG then - "next Generation"?
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We didn't buy any of their software anyway, as we were locked into a sitewide deal for Sunsoft's PC-NFS at the time.
