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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by topdancing on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:23PM (#29355345)
Knock out this set of buildings in London, and you can kiss the entirety of the UK offline/most of Europe won't recover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telehouse_Europe
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by inopinatus on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:36PM (#29357143)
It took exactly one (1) spanning tree misconfiguration on a single BlackDiamond to cripple LINX for hours, a couple of decades ago.

Source: I was sitting next to the person who fixed it.

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