Your other (dupe) copy of this thread got pulled, but that was the one with the list ping. You might want to re-ping the list, since the ping doesn't work.
Thanks, Dayglored
Just another reason why the government needs to control the internet...for security reasons/s
Does anyone know if the vandals were praising Allah while doing their dirty work?
Vandalism in Arizona shows the Internet's vulnerability
Bah! That ain't nothin'. You want to cause trouble, knock over one of the DNS root servers.
(No, don't. Really.)
The cable that was severed isn’t hard to spot because the trenching machines used to bury it leave a scar on the landscape, he said.This should be a Big Freakin' Deal because it flies in the face of one of the most basic principles of the design of the Internet -- that there is always an alternate data route. The only exception is "last-mile" connections to residential and business customers.“I could take a couple of shovels, and one or two people, a six-pack of beer, find a place that’s hidden with not much traffic, and I could have a little party,” Hobbs said. “It would be a trivial task to dig up one of these cables. They’re not guarded, and they’re not protected.”
Hobbs said CenturyLink should be discussing why the lines weren’t backed up and whether there are enough alternative routes for data. “People should be embarrassed that this has happened and that they hadn’t planned for a better outcome,” he said.
WTH were these people thinking???
bttt
what happened to redundant fiber rings....thing of the past,to expensive,myth?
This is from the Tulsa World. I remember a few years back when someone with a chainsaw wrecked havoc on a Tulsa telephone underground cubicle. It was a mess for quite a while.