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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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