Day: 19 February 2009
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Czech ISP chaos
A Czech ISP made some changes this morning which cause routing updates to increase from a few thousand per second to around 25k per second at its peak. Newly-connected BGP routers typically provide information about themselves to each and every other BGP router on the internet. One of these pieces of information is AS (…
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Windows for War – scary stuff
A number of military organisations around the world have started using Windows 2000 as a platform for operational systems within navies, the army, air services and other war branches. But recently there has been quite a bit of consternation concerning the use Windows in UK naval vessels as well as French fighter planes. I’m the…
