Comments on: Internet Event Horizons

Internet Event Horizons

Kronos_to_Earth — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:46:30 -0800

Having trouble connecting to a site? It may be you and many others got too close to a network event horizon and the packets ...disappeared.... The internets has black holes, too. via

By: SkinnerSan

SkinnerSan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:12:20 -0800

insert generic Skynet reference here.

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:47:53 -0800

there have been about 73 comments in this thread so far, but they ended up in a black hole

By: eritain

eritain — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:33:20 -0800

How appropriate that the site crashed my browser.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:46:50 -0800

Based on this map, I'm really glad I don't live on the east coast!

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:18:46 -0800

Davejay, OK...but there are 417,000,000 comments (in hyperspace). Sorry about the browser crash, eritain.

By: stelas

stelas — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:52:38 -0800

It's neat and all but surely not very useful to advanced users when laid on a physical map? I'd prefer some kind of London Underground-esque network map of the major routers and bridges, especially the international ones, with lines or cut lines between them. I imagine it'd get unruly extremely fast but you'd surely have more of a chance of going 'oh that's why I can't connect' when you compare it to a tracert.

By: bystander

bystander — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:49:13 -0800

Strange site. It seems the folk behind it know how the internet works, but they present a bunch of glitches which I would guess are largely routing table errors as some spooky phenomenon. Talk to any network engineer about how tricky it is to move a production server environment between ISPs and I would think all these would be accounted for. Zooming in near me resolve geographically in power and network lacking national parks, so I expect they need to try a little harder.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:23:32 -0800

What's with Franch?

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:29:57 -0800

France...

By: stelas

stelas — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:11:02 -0800

France is used by a surprisingly high volume of spammers, a lot of which are busy messing around on open relays. Kind of makes a mish-mash of the internet (yes, more than usual).

By: unrepentanthippie

unrepentanthippie — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:45:06 -0800

eritain: Crashed mine too, so the Silicon Gods are not just pissed at you personally.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:01:52 -0800

Crashed me, too. Older version of Safari. The page has a Google map embedded with about a bazillion hot spots. Google maps makes old Safari cry.

By: zengargoyle

zengargoyle — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:12:29 -0800

Cheap old routers don't have the memory capacity for the current BGP tables. Routes get dropped, sorta randomly.