CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets

Re:CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network car... by Someone1234 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @09:21AM (#18789284)

Makes you wonder how secure their backhaul really is?

If the whole thing is a single flat logical network (one that could allow bad packets to propagate as we witnessed) that would suggest it is also quite vulnerable to malicious actions.

It is all well and good applying a filter, but that seems like a bandaid fix. Why is equipment even able to talk that has no reason to do so? Seems like they've put convenience over good network governance.

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Re:CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network car... by ecp9 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @01:38PM (#18790595)

Much networking equipment is not designed to handle malicious or bizarre traffic. TCP/IP is amazingly brittle, and often fails on me in surprising ways that the standards say should never ever happen.

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Re:CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network car... by drcross on Sunday December 30, 2018 @07:54PM (#18792295)

I don't think that's fair to say. Billions of people unlock their phone or log in to their computers every morning and everything works, pretty much all of the time.

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Re:CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network car... by ecp9 on Monday December 31, 2018 @10:43AM (#18794961)

If you're a hipster in a major city near fiber, sure, it all works great. For the rest of us, no, daily failures are the reality.

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Re:CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network car... by drcross on Saturday January 12, 2019 @01:03PM (#18892406)

That´s not a failure of TCP.

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