[MissouriConservative]

Here is another story that links to the one posted. Shows just how fraile the Internet truly can be these days.

Blackout Shows Net's Fragility

[IVote2]

TW/Road Runner was affected by this as the story says, we could not access Drudge or other sites. Very annoying.

Jen

[FinallyBackInNH]

I'm not sure I buy the "fragility" argument. The Internet is remarkably resilient -- the DOD designed it that way. If there's an outage, traffic just goes another way. It's when 2 carriers get in a tiff and start denying service to each other's subscribers that there's a problem.

Now if you're a RoadRunner subscriber (or quite a few of my customers for that matter), that rationale doesn't really mean a whole heck of a lot if you can't get to anything. But it's not really a case of the Internet being frail, but rather 2 ISP's trying to make a point at the expense of their customers (and their customers' customers...).

[DUMBGRUNT]

From article:
But when these relationships go sour, the feuding parties' lack of flexibility can result in blackouts like the one that occurred this week.
This is why we need the U.N.,they can fix it for us!
Well we do send them a lot of money each year. Just what is it they do at the UN, I forgot.