Internet withstands US blackout, say analysts

[dArKeR]

Major internet backbones and websites have so far withstood the massive power blackout, a network analysis group, Keynote Systems, said on Thursday.

Keynote said its monitoring of all major US Internet backbones from the 25 largest US cities showed no difficulties and major websites were accessible and performing normally.

A few news sites, such as www.usatoday.com,/i> and www.cnn.com, had minor problems at the start as masses of surfers scrambled for information, but they quickly recovered, it said.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19082

(No loss, no one with morals reads those sites anyway!)

PS. I still think we should have a DULand Operation Plan in case the DU gets kicked down. We should have several alternate sites everyone knows to go to whose servers are located in different geographical locations.

PSS. Don't forget, Gore made the Internet and Bush made the power grid.

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[DUreader]

1. Some DUers chat at Ourownmedia.com

http://www.ourownmedia.com/

[alaine]

2. I'm happy that this did not get knocked out so I have

somewhere to come and kvetch about being lied to again by Bush. ABC news just said of course they can't rule out cyber-terrorism in this instance and they don't know where the problem started yet. They said hackers had left evidence of probing out west just a few weeks ago and that their was plenty of warning something like this could happen. (Boy, that sounds familiar.) And pseudo-journalist Katie Couric is on T.V. haranging poor Pataki about this as if he has anything to do with it or even knows anything about it. Nauseating, but typical, a good reminder this a.m. of why I never watch this stuff under normal circumstances.

Thank God for the internet.

[DrBB]

3. DU back-up site? Here's the one I bookmarked

Some time ago Skinner or someone posted this IP address as an alternate server if the main DU server was shut down for nefarious or other reasons:

http://216.158.54.197/

[Devils Advocate NZ]

4. No, that is the IP address for DU.

www.democraticunderground.com resolves to 216.158.54.197

In other words, if the DU server goes down, 216.158.54.197 goes down.

Why they posted the address is, I believe, because at the time there had been hackers attacking the DNS system and rerouting domain names to different addresses. Posting the IP address just assured that if the DU domain name had been hacked, DUers could still connect to the DU server.

216.158.54.197 is NOT a mirror site (a site kept on a different server with a different address).

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. One thing is for sure

The internet goes a lot faster when all those folks in the northeast are off line.

[MrBadExample]

6. Me to analysts: "Well, duh."

I mean, that's what the Internet does. That's the whole reason it was designed in the first place--to provide reliable decentralized communications in the event of something catastrophic. It's just performing as designed.

Sorry if I sound a little grumpy. I have a bad reaction to the obvious. :)

[slackmaster]

8. Not just "something catastrophic"

The Internet is designed from the ground up to withstand nuclear war.

[MrBadExample]

9. Don't you mean "nucular"?

And nuclear war isn't something catastrophic? I was generalizing, y'know... :)

[MostlyBlackCat2]

7. except msn

can't get msn or hotmail all morning.

[Cheswick2.0]

10. Well Of Course , Gore invented it

! = )