Friday, August 24, 2007

The Day the Internet Crashed

Purely as a point of nerdiness it did sort of happen once back in the late 90s, and it has definitely happened in the UK. If I recall correctly, both times, someone misconfigured a peering router on an Internet Exchange which caused a broadcast storm. You may chuckle at the video (because it is really funny) but it really is quite simple (theoretically) to bring the whole thing crashing to it's knees.

4 comments:

Newmania said...

dizzy said...
A greek island


you said

A geek isalnd you meant

arf arf

Surreptitious Evil said...

Mutter, mutter, BGP, mutter ...

Anonymous said...

Found this via Gizmodo...

dizzy said...

SE, if I recall correctly, and I can't find the bloody link, the thing in Florida was some sort of BGP storm thingymajig. I remember the same thing happening on LINX in about 2000.