[OT] Optus: Why does cutting a cable bring down the entire network?

[Karl Bowden]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Null Ack <nullack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thats an interesting question, and one which should be put full force
> to Optus! The internet was actually designed to withstand nuclear
> attack by the US military before it became public. Network design
> treats redundancy is a key goal. You could do some tracerts to get
> some insight into how your packets are being routed.
>
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FYI, If it was the outage for half a day yesterday morning, my skyways
adsl and dialup connections were affected, but my iinet and exetel
connections were fine.
And I'm in Griffith, NSW