I wonder if I can nerdsnipe anyone into figuring out the fewest BGP hijacks it would take to force traffic on the Internet from the West Coast of the US to take the long way around to the East Coast of the US. Never mind the latency, that pipe isn't big enough for all of that traffic, so it'll effectively be a netsplit.

I bet it's a lower number than anyone's actually comfortable with, though it would be rather difficult to pull of.

I doubt that you could force all such traffic to be so routed, given that there are coast-to-coast transit networks that would not be affected by a BGP hijack (IGP routes are often preferred to EGP routes). In all likelihood the situation would not last very long as network operators would quickly respond to the anomalous traffic pattern and deploy various route filters to correct the problem.

> Never mind the latency, that pipe isn't big enough for all of that traffic, so it'll effectively be a netsplit.

We've seen this one before... BGP doesn't (usually) look at link utilization, just link status and maybe that the BGP connection doesn't time out, but even a massively overloaded connection tends to have room for BGP pings, so it's less netsplit and more blackhole.

I don't think BGP hijacks is really the way to acheive this one.

God, this would happen all the time in the mid-90s. You joke about a backhoe in Iowa, but I'm pretty certain it was a backhoe in Iowa one time. Then the whole of the UK's traffic to the USA West Coast would be routed through an ISDN connection in Korea for three days. Your goat porn downloads from Usenet would drop from their high of 0.5Kb/sec and you'd be left with your dick in your hand. Or something.

Kids today will never know how we suffered in the Before Times

boobs.jpg loading one line at a time and then greying out completely before reaching the bottom

Good thing I'm into legs... They loaded first.

only if it was BMP

This is where you'd choose the .gif version hoping it was interlaced.

Ofc they will, people are recording the history of porn downlo... err the internet just as diligently as Napoleon conquests !

They will never experience buying bootleg disk for gif porn.

edit: disk is for diskette

This is why I always pre-download pr0n well-ahead of jack0ff time.

Call it BBP Protocol... "Blue Ball Prevention"

This happened with regular phone service as recent as 2017 in Canada (1).

(1) https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/mobile/many-atlantic-canadians-l...

This is still an issue AFAIK, a disproportionate chunk of internet traffic goes through AWS-East...